Transcript Living Conditions in the Gilded Age

Today’s Questions
10. How did industrialization and
inventions affect cities?
11. Write 5 adjectives that describe
what it was like to live in a
tenement.
 How did settlement houses and
political machines affect cities?
Vocabulary
68. urbanization – growth of cities because of
industrial jobs and improved transportation
Vocabulary
69. tenement – an apartment house that is rundown and overcrowded
Vocabulary
70. slum – neighborhood of overcrowded and
dangerous tenements
Vocabulary
71. social gospel – Christian based movement
aimed to improve the lives of the poor by
providing daycare, education, and healthcare in
settlement houses.
Vocabulary
72. political machine – corrupt organization that
controlled local governments by giving food,
jobs, bribes, and favors to voters
Living Conditions in
the Gilded Age
Cities Change
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Urbanization
 Growth
of cities because of Industry
 New factory jobs
 New people
Immigrants
 Ex-Farmers
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Cities Change
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Technology
 Steel
in skyscrapers
 Electricity
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Elevators
Streetcars
Life in the City
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Tenement
 Run-down
and overcrowded apartment house
 Old buildings + Landlord neglect + Poor
design + Little government control =
Dangerous conditions
 No running water
How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob Riis
Life in the City
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Slums
 Neighborhood
of tenement buildings
 Trash thrown between buildings
Reforms
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Social gospel movement
 Improve
lives of the poor
 Abolish child labor
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Settlement houses offered services for poor and
immigrants
 Daycare
 Education
 Health
care
 Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago
Political Machines
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Political machine
 Controls
local government by trading favors for votes
 Positives
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Built parks, schools, sewers, and orphanages
Help immigrants get started
 Negatives
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Dishonest elections
Bribery
Jobs and food only to supporters