World’s largest cities…
US most populated cities…
By 1900, most major US cities had a
population of 500,000 and were
continuing to grow!
•Transportation
Networks
•Architecture
•Mass Culture
Since cities offered jobs, people flocked there and
transportation had to accommodate their arrival and
movement through the city.
Mass Transit
 Railroad systems
 Subways (Boston)
 Trolleys
 Cable Cars
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Skyscrapers
Suburbs
Most buildings were 5 stories at the
time.
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Newspapers and comic strips: Pulitzer and
Hearst
Department Stores – Marshall Field
World Fairs
Amusement Parks
Coney Island
Central Park
What is Marshall Field’s today?
Chicago
Boston
NYC
Philadelphia
Baltimore
FREE CHOICE
Choose a topic, or multiple, from today’s class to further explore:
 Research the differences in city designs: NYC, Phillie,
Chicago, Boston
 Examine the leisure activities: find comics, explore fashion
and music, study amusement parks, look up Central Park’s
significance
 Transportation: first subways, compare to Europe’s progress,
why weren’t cable and trolley cars everywhere
Write your research on a piece of paper to be collected.
Bring in a Chicago World’s Fair 1893 story:
 Invention
 Innovation
 Designer
 Food vendors
 Crime
 Drama
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Count and list the totals:
number of rooms in your house,
bathrooms, bedrooms, TVs, cars,
and pairs of shoes.
Read the Chapter 20,
Section 3 Summary
Create your own
power point, just
like Mrs. Cag’s
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Tenements/Apartments – overcrowded, dark,
unsanitary
Low trash standards
No safety standards: no fire departments, no
clean water
Plumbing was rare
Diseases spread quickly: cholera, thyphoid,
influenza, tuberculosis
50% of babies died
Air pollution
Clasp Locker
1910
2014
$23.00
$1.00
1910
$438.00
($9 a week)
2014
$43,924.00
1910
$0.32
2014
$3.81
1910
$0.23
2014
$1.40
12 Day
Cruise
1910
$60.00
2014
$1800.00
1910
2014
$1.15 Billion
$17 Trillion
How have things
improved?
Or did they just get worse?
Compare
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Small apartments
Lots of jobs
Mass transit
Crime
Culture communities
poverty
Contrast
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Fire and health codes
Less illness
Medical care
Lawsuits/Regulations
for change
The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for a car was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME.
Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Most women washed their hair once a month, and used egg yolks for shampoo.
The Five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia/influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars.
The population of Las Vegas , Nevada , was only 30!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all
Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at
drugstores.
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U. S. A. !
Write a compare and
contrast paragraph about
city life or immigration.