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Title: The Problems of Urbanization


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Section 2
  • 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
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