ch. 9-1: urban growth jobs- factories drew millions of people mainly immigrants to the cities...
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Ch. 9-1: Urban Growth
Jobs- factories drew millions of people mainly immigrants to the cities
Education became more common
Culture- music, plays & sports
Urban Problems
Slums- poverty stricken areas of the cities
Mainly African Americans and immigrants lived in the slums
They were the crowded and dirty areas of the cities
Crime- rapid increase in crime in the urban areas
Sewage was dumped into the lakes and rivers the same place that people got their drinking water from
No sanitation systems
New Architecture
Use of steel led to the rise of skyscrapers
Tenements- cheaply built buildings where hundreds of families would crowd into
Tenements were overcrowded and fire hazards
Diseases, rats and roaches spread rapidly
Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittestBusinesses that were the
strongest were the fittest and would survive
Businesses and industrial leaders used this to justify their practices
Social Classes
Growing gap between the rich and poor
Middle Class- rose in size with the Industrial Revolution
White Collar Workers- office workers