Bell Ringer

• Timeline Practice: List these events in your notebook, numbered 1-7 in chronological order. Try to add the date (or decade) if you can.– Jim Crow Laws– Stamp Act– Articles of Confederation– Louisiana Purchase– House of Burgess established– Kansas-Nebraska Act– Emancipation Proclamation

Bell Ringer• What are 3 technologies we discussed last

class, and what was their impact?

• Name 2 other technologies we have discussed so far in this class. Can you think of any from before 1850? Before 1800?

Immigration

IndustrializationUrbanization

Urbanization and Growth of Cities

• Population growth in the East led to the growth of cities – Why these?– Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New

York

Urbanization and Growth of Cities

• Reasons for urbanization: –Specialized industries developed around natural resources or transportation (water, rail)

steel Pittsburgh meat-packing Chicago

–Created factories demand for labor •Millions of new immigrants • Americans moving from rural to urban areas looking for jobs

Urbanization and Growth of Cities

• Factories in large cities provided jobs • Results of rapid industrialization and

urbanization–Overcrowded neighborhoods –Unsanitary living conditions, especially

for immigrant families and poor workers–Unsafe working conditions

Urbanization and Growth of Cities

• The rapid growth of cities caused housing shortages and the need for new public services, such as– sewage–water systems – public transportation – trolleys and streetcars

How would these change life in the city?

New Technologies

• Urbanization was both a cause and a result of new technologies.• How might each of the

following technologies relate to urbanization?

Bessemer Process -- Steel

Light Bulb and more! – Thomas Edison

• Menlo Park, NJ: The Invention Factory

Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell

Airplane – Wright Brothers

Assembly Line – Henry Ford

Urbanization Wrap-Up

• Why did big cities develop in this period?• What were some of the problems that

were associated with cities?• What are some of the technologies that

made urbanization possible? • What are some technologies that

became necessary because of cities?

• Show Safari clip from New York: 1865-1989, Poverty in NY (start at 10:00 of 21 min nd play to end) – Jacob Riis story