Reasons for Growth:
1. Mass Transportation: mass transportation was a
1. Immigration: Immigration is the movement of
people going to a different country, for example
around this time many people from europe were
coming to america. This is important because it
brings new cultures and diversity along with new
trades and people to work.
2. Migration: Migration is the movement of people
to a different part of the country. A mass number of
people who move from california to new york
would be migration. Migration brings workers and
also new things from other parts of the country.
a. What was the Great Migration? The great
migration was the mass movement of african
americans from southern states to urban areas
north from 1916 to around 1970. This was
important because this improved living conditions
for the african americans.
Urbanization
Problems:
1. Overcrowding: a problem with urbanization sometimes
is overcrowding, overcrowding means there is to many
people in that city or a certain area in that city. This
causes tenements and creates harsh living condition for
people.
2. Dumbbell Tenements: dumbbell tenements are a type
of tenement shaped in a way like a dumbbell. Tenements
lacked proper ventilation, inadequate windows, and
housed a lot of unwanted pests. The conditions were not
good for people to live in.
3. Crime: urban areas bring unwanted things sometimes.
In urban areas crime is very common, such as theft,
murder, and drug handling for illegal use. Urban areas can
bring a lot of attention because of what they have to offer
and the amount of people they have in them.
4. Fire: fires can create chaos and ruin a lot of things that
people care about and like. Fires happen in a lot of ways,
just by something hot touching a flammable object. Fire
are common in urban areas because they can burn a lot
Led To…
very good thing that urbanization brought, the use of
subways, trains, and taxis’s made it easier and faster for
people to go all over.
2. Suburbs: suburbs are the outlayings around a city,
these are a lot of houses for people to live in, most of
the time they are really nice and provide very good
housing for people.
3. Skyscrapers: with the beginning to building cities
they needed more space, and keep expanding and
getting wider was not the option. The only other way
was to build up, this is where the evolution of
skyscrapers were created, these very tall buildings are
and were used for housing, offices, and big companies.
4. Amusement Parks and Spectator Sports: these arks
and sports created fun things for people to do in the big
cities, places like new york which has a very famous
Attempts to Solve Problems:
1. Jacob Riis: Jacob Riis was a journalist and
social reformer who publicized the crises in
housing, education, and poverty at the height of
European immigration to New York City in the late
nineteenth century. He shed light to many
problems and caused major reform because of
this.
2. Gospel of Wealth: this was a book written by
andrew carnegie, it highlight his success and
philanthropy. This book was to inspire people into
what he has done.
3. Settlement Houses: settlement houses aided
poor people and immigrants as much as they
could. They offered education, healthcare,
childcare, and employment resources. These
houses were very good at getting people on their
feet by providing them the tools to do so.