Urbanization: During The Gilded Age 1800

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Urbanization During The Gilded Age1800s

• Objective
• Describe effects of urbanization on living and
  working conditions

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Urbanization

• The increasing growth of population in cities
• Farmers and other workers moved into the cities
  to find jobs when they lost theirs on the farmers
  

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Negative Effects of Urbanization

• Housing
• Overcrowded
• Airless
• Filthy
• Row houses
• Working class families in the city had two
  choices buy an house on the outskits of the town
  or cramped rooms in the cities boarding houses.

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Negative Housing

• People could either buy a house on the outskirts
  and pay for transportation or live in a cramped
  city.
• People would crowd a single family house with
  three single families.
• The homes that were overcrowded were very
  unsanitary and disgusting to live in
• Row houses were rooms houses that shared walls to
  create more room to live in. more than 2 families
  lived in each of these homes

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Negative Health

• They did not have an effective watering or
  plumbing system for the cities.
• Water was polluted and spread cholera and typhoid
• When people could not get water they would
  collect water in buckets when it rained and they
  would heat it for baths.

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Negative - Sanitation

• Garbage in the streets
• Sewage flowed through open gutters

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Negative - Working Conditions

• Farmers and industrial workers struggled to
  survive because prices and pay were falling.
• People worked for long hours and were not
  guaranteed safety.
• Wages were pitiful which in turn created labor
  organization unions.
• In the mines many people died
• Children worked as hard as the adults.
• Heavy debts also worsened peoples lives.

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Positive Effects of Urbanization

• In advancement in new technology, which brought
  new a exciting inventions to come in the near
  future.

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New Technologies

• There were a lot of advances in transportation
  and communication networks
• Many inventions were created in this time such
  as the light bulb, generator and the first power
  plant created in New York.
• Alexander introduced the telephone
• Elevator

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Positive - New Technology

• Bridges help set the tone for expansion all
  across the country and gave people new ideas for
  the future to come.
• Skyscrapers
• Street lights
• Sewers
• Trolley cars

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Positive - More

• Suburbs
• El trains
• Subways
• Printing such as magazines, newspapers, books
• Airplanes
• Photographs

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Positive - Cultural Benefits

• Schools
• Art galleries
• Libraries
• Books/ literature
• Museums

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Positive - Entertainment Culture

• Theater
• Amusement parks
• Spectator sports such as baseball
• Bicycling and Tennis
• Mass Entertainment

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Positive - Other Cultural Benefits

• Urban shopping
• The Department store
• The Chain store
• Advertisements
• Catalogs and PFD

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Philosophies

• Puritan Work Ethic
• Work Hard
• Social Gospel
• Honor each other
• Follow their beliefs of God
• Keep out the devil in their hearts
• Punish those who did not follow the Anglican form
  of worship

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