Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects

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Industrialization and Urbanization Part I
Negative Effects

• US History
• Spiconardi

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URBANIZATION

• Urbanization ?process by which more of a nations
  population becomes concentrated in cities
• Why?
• Factories built in the cities ?
• Job opportunities ?
• Immigrants seek jobs settle in cities ?
• Rural farmers come to the cities

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Urbanization Negative Effects
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Urbanization Negative Effects

• Housing
• Not enough affordable housing to keep up with the
  population
• Many forced into homelessness or tenements
• Tenements ?inner-city multi unit dwellings (4-6
  stories high)
• Usually divided and re-divided.
• http//www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual
  .html

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Tenements
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Tenements
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Tenements

• What are some problems that the tenement living
  conditions caused?
• Why would people live in such conditions?

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Urbanization Negative Effects

• Crime
• Due to poverty crime increases in the urban
  centers of America
• 1881 25 murders per 1 million people
• 1898 107 murders per 1 million people

• Health
• Tuberculosis
• Cholera
• Typhoid
• Diphtheria

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Urbanization Negative Effects

• Political Machines
• Tammany Hall
• In return for votes, bosses provided jobs, built
  parks, distributed food clothing to the needy,
  but
• UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY
• When youve voted em with their whiskers on,
  you take em to a barber and scrape off the chin
  fringe. Then you voted em againThen to a barber
  again, off comes the sides and you vote em a
  third time with the mustacheThen clean off the
  mustache and vote em plain face. That makes
  every one of em for four votes.