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Bell Ringer
• Timeline Practice: List these events in your notebook, numbered 1-7 in chronological order. Try to add the date (or decade) if you can.– Jim Crow Laws– Stamp Act– Articles of Confederation– Louisiana Purchase– House of Burgess established– Kansas-Nebraska Act– Emancipation Proclamation
Bell Ringer• What are 3 technologies we discussed last
class, and what was their impact?
• Name 2 other technologies we have discussed so far in this class. Can you think of any from before 1850? Before 1800?
Immigration
IndustrializationUrbanization
Urbanization and Growth of Cities
• Population growth in the East led to the growth of cities – Why these?– Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New
York
Urbanization and Growth of Cities
• Reasons for urbanization: –Specialized industries developed around natural resources or transportation (water, rail)
steel Pittsburgh meat-packing Chicago
–Created factories demand for labor •Millions of new immigrants • Americans moving from rural to urban areas looking for jobs
Urbanization and Growth of Cities
• Factories in large cities provided jobs • Results of rapid industrialization and
urbanization–Overcrowded neighborhoods –Unsanitary living conditions, especially
for immigrant families and poor workers–Unsafe working conditions
Urbanization and Growth of Cities
• The rapid growth of cities caused housing shortages and the need for new public services, such as– sewage–water systems – public transportation – trolleys and streetcars
How would these change life in the city?
New Technologies
• Urbanization was both a cause and a result of new technologies.• How might each of the
following technologies relate to urbanization?
Bessemer Process -- Steel
Light Bulb and more! – Thomas Edison
• Menlo Park, NJ: The Invention Factory
Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
Airplane – Wright Brothers
Assembly Line – Henry Ford
Urbanization Wrap-Up
• Why did big cities develop in this period?• What were some of the problems that
were associated with cities?• What are some of the technologies that
made urbanization possible? • What are some technologies that
became necessary because of cities?
• Show Safari clip from New York: 1865-1989, Poverty in NY (start at 10:00 of 21 min nd play to end) – Jacob Riis story