If you turned in a HW pass its due tomorrow Grab a handout from the front table Grab a blank index card from the front table Lets Recap What is a tenement Who can give me a rough mapping of who lived where in early cities ID: 776011
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Thursday
Please get out your HW: “3-piece person”
(If you turned in a HW pass, it’s due tomorrow)
Grab a handout from the front table
Grab a blank index card from the front table
Slide2Let’s Recap
What is a tenement?
Who can give me a rough mapping of who lived where in early cities?
Who can explain to me why these people lived where they did?
What are the definitions & differences between “immigration” & “in-migration?”
Slide3Solving City Problems
Fires are a constant danger in citiesGreat Chicago Fire 1871 strong dry winds + factory grease & oil = 300 dead, 100,000 homeless
Slide4Overpopulation as people crowded into citiesLack of sanitation as garbage filled the streets
Solving City Problems
Slide5Air pollution from factories pumped out smokeCrime flourishes as living quarters are so close and not secureDeaths from spread of disease and fires in tenements
Solving City Problems
Slide6Activity:
On your index card, watch the following pictures
SILENTLY
and write down adjectives or words that come to mind…
As many as you can think of, no limit necessary.
Slide7Jacob Riis: “How the Other Half Lives”
“Step carefully over this baby—it is a baby, spite of its rags and dirt—under these iron bridges called fire-escapes, but loaded down…with broken household goods, with washtubs and barrels, over which no man could climb a fire”
Slide8Slide9Slide10Slide11Slide12Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17Slide18Slide19Slide20Slide21Slide22So….
Once the “rich” and the rest of the country sees the way the
other half lives
, we realize it’s time to
do something
about it
But what?...
What would you make the push to do?
Slide23Urban Reforms
Building Codes: regulations that set standards for construction and safety. New buildings required to have fire escapes & decent plumbing
Slide24Cities hired workers to collect garbage & sweep the streets (jobs)
Urban Reforms
Slide25Zoning laws kept factories out of neighborhoods where people lived (reduces pollution)
Urban Reforms
Slide26Cities set up professional fire companies & police forces (jobs) (safety)
Urban Reforms
Slide27Street lights put in cities for nighttime (safety)Public transportation is built in most cities (jobs) (safety) Engineers & Architects hired to design new water systems for clean water (sanitation) (jobs)
Urban Reforms
Slide28For Homework – 10 points tomorrow
Make a “half-page” from scratch paper
TOP: If Jacob Riis could come and visit Newtown, or where you live today…what would he say about the living conditions & social classes?
BOTTOM: Interview mom or dad. Have them reflect the environment where/ when they grew up regarding living conditions & social class stratification
Slide29Happy Friday!!!!
Day Two – Early City Slums*Please get out your ½ sheet assignments***HW passes for the poetry assignment is due today**
Slide30Social Gospel: movement within American Protestantism in the late 1800s that attempted to apply biblical teachings to society’s problemsA calling on Christians to do “their duty” in helping the poorWork with employers to get workers a ½ day off on Saturdays
Religious Organizations Help the Poor
Slide31Religious Organizations Help the Poor
Mother Cabrini – Italian born nun that founds dozens of hospitals for the poorSalvation Army: an international charitable organizationFood, shelter, Christian-based education to the poor
Slide32YMHA
YMHA- Young Men’s Hebrew Association: organization founded in Baltimore in 1854 to provide community services to Jewish neighborhoodsHelped Jewish families acculturate while preserving their culture/ traditionsSpawned the YWHA
Slide33Settlement House Movement
Settlement houses: community centers that offered services to the poorJane Addams leads the movement in ChicagoCame from a prevalent home & moved to the Chicago slumsOpens her home, an old mansion & creates the Hull House
Slide34Many women came to live there and help the movementEducation: government & English languageHealth careRecreational activities: sports, choir, acting
Settlement House Movement
Slide35Pressing for Reform
Women knew the only way to make an impactful change was to ban together and uniteHOWEVER…women’s rights were still lacking, without the right to vote, they couldn’t make an impact or ask for help from the governmentThis starts the women’s suffrage movement…
Slide36Chapters 6 & 7
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