Ch. 9-1: Urban Growth

Jobs- factories drew millions of people mainly immigrants to the cities

Education became more common

Culture- music, plays & sports

Urban Problems

Slums- poverty stricken areas of the cities

Mainly African Americans and immigrants lived in the slums

They were the crowded and dirty areas of the cities

Tenements

Crime- rapid increase in crime in the urban areas

Sewage was dumped into the lakes and rivers the same place that people got their drinking water from

No sanitation systems

New Architecture

Use of steel led to the rise of skyscrapers

Tenements- cheaply built buildings where hundreds of families would crowd into

Tenements were overcrowded and fire hazards

Diseases, rats and roaches spread rapidly

Social Darwinism

Survival of the fittestBusinesses that were the

strongest were the fittest and would survive

Businesses and industrial leaders used this to justify their practices

Social Classes

Growing gap between the rich and poor

Middle Class- rose in size with the Industrial Revolution

White Collar Workers- office workers

Blue Collar Worker- factory workersGilded Age- term given to the period

form 1865-1900 which makes America look like gold on the surface but crap beneath the surface

Philanthropists such as Carnegie and Rockefeller donated large sums of money to build libraries, schools and museums