Objective:
Describe effects of urbanization on living and
working conditions
Urbanization: During The Gilded Age
1800’s
Urbanization
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The increasing growth of population in cities
Farmers and other workers moved into the cities
to find jobs when they lost theirs on the farmers
Negative Effects of Urbanization
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Housing
Overcrowded
Airless
Filthy
Row houses
Working class families in the city had two choices buy
an house on the outskits of the town or cramped rooms
in the cities boarding houses.
Negative Housing
People could either buy a house on the outskirts and pay
for transportation or live in a cramped city.
People would crowd a single family house with three
single families.
The homes that were overcrowded were very unsanitary
and disgusting to live in
Row houses were rooms houses that shared walls to
create more room to live in. more than 2 families lived in
each of these homes
Negative Health
They did not have an effective watering or plumbing
system for the cities.
Water was polluted and spread cholera and typhoid
When people could not get water they would collect
water in buckets when it rained and they would heat it
for baths.
Negative - Sanitation
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Garbage in the streets
Sewage flowed through open gutters
Negative - Working Conditions
Farmers and industrial workers struggled to survive because prices and pay
were falling.
People worked for long hours and were not guaranteed safety.
Wages were pitiful which in turn created labor organization unions.
In the mines many people died
Children worked as hard as the adults.
Heavy debts also worsened peoples lives.
Positive Effects of Urbanization
In advancement in new technology, which brought
new a exciting inventions to come in the near
future.
New Technologies
There were a lot of advances in transportation and communication networks
Many inventions were created in this time… such as the light bulb, generator and the first
power plant created in New York.
Alexander introduced the telephone
Elevator
Positive - New Technology
Bridges help set the tone for expansion all
across the country and gave people new ideas
for the future to come.
Skyscrapers
Street lights
Sewers
Trolley cars
Positive - More
Suburbs
El trains
Subways
Printing such as magazines, newspapers, books
Airplanes
Photographs
Positive - Cultural Benefits
Schools
Art galleries
Libraries
Books/ literature
Museums
Positive - Entertainment Culture
Theater
Amusement parks
Spectator sports such as baseball
Bicycling and Tennis
Mass Entertainment
Positive - Other Cultural Benefits
Urban shopping
The Department store
The Chain store
Advertisements
Catalogs and PFD
Philosophies
Puritan Work Ethic
Work Hard
Social Gospel
Honor each other
Follow their beliefs of God
Keep out the devil in their hearts
Punish those who did not follow the Anglican
form of worship
Closure