Section 1

Growth of Cities

        -Factories = cities = people

                -More factories = more people

                        -Urbanization

                -Who took all these new jobs?

                        -Immigrants

                        -Rural folk looking for better life

                        -African Americans

                        -Women

                        -Children (20% of kids worked in 1900)

New City Technology

        -Steel allowed cities to grow upàskyscrapers

                -Elevator (Elisha Otis)

        -Streetcar / trains allowed cities to grow outwards

                -Electricity

                -Subway systems

Life in the Cities

        -Upper class life

                -Castle-like mansions in cities

                -Wild, extravagant parties

                -Philanthropy

        -Middle class life

                -Doctors, lawyers, sales clerks, accountants, engineers

                -Home life changed

                        -Running water, indoor plumbing, etc

        -Lower class life

                -Terrible

Urban Disasters and Slums

        -1906 San Francisco earthquake

        -Cities were dirty, overcrowded

                -Tenements

                -No planning and zoning laws

                        -Apartments next to factories

                -Sewage in streets

                -No running water

                -Slums

                -Ethnic neighborhoodsàghetto

-In Chapter 8, we will learn about how and why people started “cleaning” up city life and society

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