Cities Expand
The movement of population from farms to cities that began in the early 1800s.
What is urbanization?
Where did poor families often lived?
They lived near the center city in small apartments called tenements.
Garbage in the streets, more overcrowding in the cities, crime increased.
What are the problems of rapid urbanization?
A community center that offered services to the poor.
What is a settlement house?
What types of jobs were available in cities?
Industrial jobs in factories and service jobs like salesclerks, waiters, and secretaries.
What was the main reason for people coming to live in the cities?
Jobs and employment
Overcrowding, diseases such as cholera and typhoid, no heat, no indoor bathroom or plumbing
What are problems living in tenements?
He exposed life in the tenements in his photographs and publication of "How the Other Half Lives".
Who was Jacob Riis?
She began the settlement house movement in Chicago and was committed to helping the poor.
Who was Jane Addams?
Aside from finding work, why did African Americans wanted to leave the South?
They wanted to leave from segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South.
Why were people leaving farms to come to the cities?
Farms were becoming more mechanized and there were not enough jobs there for people.
Doctors, lawyers, managers and office workers who live comfortable lives.
Who are the middle class?
Establishment of building codes, zoning laws, improvements in fire and police services.
What were some things the government did to solve the problems of urbanization?
Taught classes in American government and the English language, give instructions in help care and operated day nurseries for children.
What are services provided by settlement houses?
These are standards for construction and safety.
What are building codes?
Where did most African Americans migrated to?
Northern cities like Detroit, New York, and Chicago
Mansions where millionaires lived lavish lifestyle.
Who are the wealthy class?
A religious program that called on Christians to help the poor.
What is Social Gospel?
About how many settlement houses were established by 1900 in American cities?
100 settlement houses
What religious organization was established in 1865 and is still in existence today?
What is the Salvation Army?
What was the common result of urbanization in the cities?
The population increased rapidly with people living in cities.
What is important about being in a club for many people?
Clubs bring together many people who are striving upward, to uplift themselves with the hope of being in the elite of society.
This individual was prominent official in New York who would eventually become president during the Progressive era.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
What was the realization about the problems of slum neighborhoods?
The problems were just so great that government was needed to act and pass reforms.
The name of the settlement house in Chicago established by Jane Addams.
What is Hull House?