Gilded Age, Day 5: Urbanization

BK:

Name:

Flashback & Bellringer

FB: What attracted many Asians to the U.S. in the late 1800s?
a) Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act
b) The desire for free land
c) Jobs with American railroad companies
d) The Gentlemans Agreement
BR: Predict why many immigrants supported city political machines in the early 1900s?
a) Political machines were free of corruption
b) Political machines provided them with jobs
c) Political machines put powerful bosses out of business
d) Political machines fought against crime in the slums
Key Ideas:
Industrialization,

What is interconnected?
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Increased

Gilded

What is corruption?
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What is the definition of URBANIZATION?

How do Industrialization, Immigration, and Urbanization impact the others?

Industrializat
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Urbanization

Immigration

What two innovations impact the cities?

How does each of the new innovations impact the city?

The Real City: Overcrowding, corruption, and other problems arose in the rapidly growing cities.
What problems do you imagine arose as a result of overpopulation and overcrowding in
the cities?

Problems in the Cities:

Political Machines: What is a political machine?

How did they work?

Who was Boss Tweed? What did he do?

What early movements arose to bring change to the problems of urbanization?

Settlement House

Social Gospel Movement

Temperance

Who was Jacob Riis?

What did he do to bring change?

Class Activity: Analyze the following Jacob Riis images. Write the title of the photograph and
answer the following:
What is he showing?
What is his message?
How could the situation be
improved?
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What impact was made by Jacob Riis? Write a statement with specific details on his
contribution of bringing attention to the problems in the cities.

Exit Slip: If you were a modern day Jacob Riis, what photograph would you take to represent
modern urban life? Draw or describe it.