The Problems of Urbanization

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• The Problems of Urbanization

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Urbanization

• Rapid growth of cities
• Immigrants cheaper, convenient, ethnic
  neighborhoods
• Farmers jobs
• African-Americans escape racial violence and
  political oppression
• All cultural opportunities

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Problems

• Poor working conditions
• Inadequate and unsafe housing
• Unsafe drinking water
• Lack of sanitation
• Fire hazards and crime

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Housing

• Row House
• New type of house for city dwellers
• Conserved space
• Single-family housing for working class

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Housing

• Dumbbell Tenements
• Main purpose was to improve city slum conditions

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Reforms

• Social Gospel Movement
• Main purpose social reform
• Help obtain better working conditions
• Help the poor

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Reforms

• Settlement Houses
• Founded in the late 1800s by social reformers

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Jane Addams

• Hull House - Chicago