Do Now: Make a list of problems that you think Boston faces today. When you finish rate them in order.

1 is the most serious.

• Muckrakers: Journalists and citizens who used technology to expose poverty and terrible conditions.

• Progressives: Politicians who tried to reform American society from 1880-1920.

Theodore Roosevelt

George Waring

First…Gangs

• First street gangs founded.

• Bandit’s Roost, 1887

Tenements

• Tenements were large buildings for the poor.

• “5 cents a spot” to sleep on the floor for a night

• No bathrooms, windows, air vents

Tenements

HomelessnessIf you couldn’t afford the tenement the street was your option…

including kids

Trash Trash

What do you remember about this from the video?

Problems facing Cities, 1880-1920

What do you think will be some of the issues facingAmerican cities as they grow this fast?