Chapter 7 Section 2
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The document discusses the challenges of urbanization in the late 19th/early 20th century, including problems related to housing, transportation, water, sanitation, crime, and fire. Tenement housing for immigrants was often overcrowded and unsanitary. Gangs were sometimes connected to politicians and fire departments. Major fires in Chicago and San Francisco highlighted these issues and led reformers like Jane Addams to establish settlement houses to help the poor and advocate for solutions like improved infrastructure and social services.
Chapter 7 Section 2
- 1. Section 2 The Challenges of Urbanization
- 2. Warm Up: Read One American’s Story on page 262 Summarize the main idea on your paper. Observe the picture of a tenement on the right. What kind of words can be used to describe the situation?
- 3. Gangs of New York Answer the following questions during the video: What is a tenement? How were gangs involved with politicians and fire departments?
- 4. Urban Problems Solutions???? Housing Transportation Water Sanitation Crime Fire
- 5. Terms to Know Urbanization Growth of cities. Cities were the cheapest and most convenient to live. Americanization movement Assimilation of many cultures. Government and concerned citizens.
- 6. Disasters Look on page 265 at the chart at the bottom. Which fire lasted longer? What was the combined death total from both disasters? Who had the most homeless left? How many more square miles did the San Francisco fire cover than the Chicago fire? What was the total property loss from both?
- 7. Reformers The Social Gospel Movement Settlement houses Read about Jane Addams on p. 266 What were her core values? What did she win in 1931?