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Page 1: Urbanization of Modern America These are your notes, you should write them down.

Urbanization of Modern America

These are your notes, you should write them down.

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IMMIGRANTSBetween 1870-1920 nearly 20 million immigrants came to the US

from Europe

In same period, thousands of immigrants came to US from Asia, Mexico and the Caribbean.

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THEIR NEW LIVES• Trip to US was long, unsafe and scary• Most immigrants will be processed at either Ellis

Island (NYC/NJ) or Angel Island (San Francisco).• .

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• Most experience culture shock once in US• Many seek like people in cities creating ethnic

neighborhoods.• This creates the melting pot idea. Many different

cultures blending together.

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• Most go to cities (convenient and cheap)• They felt safe in the neighborhoods, however due to

discrimination, inadequate education and a language barrier; work was usually limited to manual labor or factory work.

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URBAN PROBLEMS

• Housing-overcrowded, unsanitary, unsafe row houses or dumbbell tenements were usually the only option for new immigrants

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• City and local govts. have hard time keeping up with demand for housing and services

• Clean water, garbage removal, crime also plague cities

• Infamous natural disasters plague cities as well

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The Great Chicago Fire 1871

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Here is the Problem

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-vBJ8cS08U

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• 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

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• 1911 Triangle Shirt Factory Fire NYC

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Early Attempts to Correct Problems

• Efforts were on a local level

• Settlement houses pop up in urban areas to less fortunate


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