PPT-Political Problems With Urbanization

The Political Machine The Political Machine Urban problems such as crime and poor sanitation led people to give control of local governments to political machines Political Machines An organization of professional politicians . Ch. 10.2-Urbanization . Photo #1 – How the Other Half Live . Photo #2 – How the Other Half Live. Photo #3- How the Other Half Live. Photo #4 – Lewis Hine . Photo #5 – Lewis Hine. Explain the technological developments that made the growth of cities possible. Immigration. Between 1870-1920 over 20 million European immigrants came to the US. Before 1870-1880, most are from Western Europe (England, Ireland, Germany, etc.) - WASP. After 1870-1880, most come from Southern & Eastern Europe (Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, etc.). Discovering Problems at the turn of the century. How the Other Half Lives. – Jacob Riis. “Like rabbits in their burrows, the little ragamuffins sleep with at least one eye open, and every sense alert to the approach of danger; of their enemy, the policeman, whose chief business in life is to move them on and of the agent bent on robbing them of their cherished freedom. At the first warning shout they scatter and are off. To pursue them would be like chasing the fleet-footed mountain goat…There is not an open door, a hidden turn or runway, which they do not know, with lots of secret passages and short cuts no one else ever found.”. Introduction to Global Studies. XIDS 2301. Map 18. Urbanization. An increasing . number. of people in cities. An increasing . rate. of urbanization. Urbanization rate. Growth in urbanization rate. Urban Disasters and Slums;. Reformers Attack Urban Problems;. Political Machines Run Cities. Mr. Leasure. 2014 – 2015. Harrison Career Center. What were some of the causes of housing problems in tenements in the late 19. by:George Khoury. Causes of Urbanization in Chicago and New York. The increase in entrepreneurs that sought out for new technologies and inventions during the Industrial Revolution. The increase of population. 1919 - 1929. POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF THE . WEIMAR REPUBLIC. STARTER:. Can you identify these political symbols?. Symbol. 1. North Atlantic Treaty . Organization. 2. Feminism. 3. Nazism. 4. European Union. Come to every lecture. Hearing things different ways helps!. Read the chapter before lecture. Hearing things twice means you’ll retain information.. Focus. Stop checking . Facebook. during lecture. . . . Chapter 15. Reasons for Immigrating. Escaping famine, land shortage, religious and political persecution. Promise of a better life. Looked to make money to bring back home (“birds of passage”). Two families in New Jersey. Case Study on pg. 416. Just 10 kilometers away, a whole different life. . Where do we see this in Connecticut?. In most places in the world spatial patterns are reversed. Higher status people live near the center of the city while lower status live in the suburbs. . Flashback & . Bellringer. FB: What attracted many Asians to the U.S. in . the late 1800s?. Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The desire for free land. Jobs with American railroad companies. Immigration in America. Immigrants come to America to find a better life. Immigration also increased the Industrial Boom!. Majority came from Britain, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Russia, China, and Japan. Learning Targets. Describe how people moved from one place to another in big cities in the late 1800s.. Know what enabled the middle class to move to “streetcar suburbs”.. Know how political machines operated and give an example.. and the . myth . about . de-urbanization. : The . case . of Ghana. George . Owusu. (PhD). Institute of Statistical, Social & Economic Research (ISSER)/Centre for Urban Management . Studies . (CUMS).