PPT-Tenements

Mr Accetta Social Studies 8 Jacob Riis 18491914 Photographer from an immigrant family Took photographs of conditions in the tenements Published his photos in a book How the Other Half Lives. These typically include tenements houses that have been subdivided boarding houses squatter settlements vacant plots or buildings occupied by people who do not own rent or have permission to use them and ille gal subdivisions in which a house or hut DATA SHEET Australian Mineral Tenements Shape of Tenements Tenements other than Miscellaneous, Retention and Exploration LicencesThe tenement shall be rectangular in shape, however, where the presence of existing mining tenement boundaries 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. How Industrialization affected People, Housing, & Crime.. Industrialization & Movement. 1. One of the biggest advances during the Industrial Revolution was the creation of true, modern transportation. This occurred through the development of the . The. . Gilded Age. This era known as the . Gilded Age. . . A gilded object is made of cheap metal, but coated in a thin layer of gold. . Think of the candy gold coins…. Grrrr. The USA seemed perfect from the outside, but was actually full of many problems.. Nature of Work. The Cottage Industry (homemade goods) was replaced by the Factory System (machine-made goods).. Working Conditions:. Work day was 12-16 hours (only 1 . hr. break). Work week was 6 days (plus ½ day on Sunday). 1865 – 2 billion. 1900 – 13 billion. Mail order catalogs. Department stores i.e. . Macy’s, Marshall Field & Company, and Woolworths . Progressive Era. 1800 6% of Americans lived in urban areas. Where to Live? . Many ethnic immigrant groups chose to live together in the same neighborhood.. Finding a Place.. With all the immigrants coming into America, some people were looking for ways to make money, so they built tenement buildings to house new arrivals.. By: Emely Curvelo. The Lower east side. Hester Street, Lower East Side 1902.. The . Lower East . Side was . Jewish . world. . Everything was Jewish-owned or Jewish-run. . . A difficult place to live:. In ‘The Plough and the Stars’, O’ Casey shows how the patriotic ideals of the nationalist cause invade the private lives of ordinary, working class tenement dwellers who are struggling to survive.. Excerpt from Children of the Tenements Of the writer by stringing facts together to suit my own fancy. But none of the stories are invented. Nine out of ten of them are just as they came to me fresh from the life of the people, faithfully to portray which should, after all, be the aim of all fiction, as it must be its sufficient reward. Next week we will begin a novel called ‘The Guns of Easter’ by Gerard Whelan. . In . it we will follow the life and adventures . of Jimmy Conway, a young boy born into the . slums of Dublin in the years leading up.