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Chapter 15 Section 3 The Challenge of the Cities.
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Transcript of Chapter 15 Section 3 The Challenge of the Cities.
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Chapter 15 Section 3The Challenge of the Cities
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Suburb Residential
communities surrounding cities
Most people lived in the cities As they made
more money and transportation improved, they could live further from where they worked
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Tenement
Low cost apartment buildings designed to house as many families as the owner could pack in
A group of dirty, run-down tenements could transform an area into a slum
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Dumbbell Tenement Named for its
dumbbell shape
Each building narrowed in the middle, and gaps on either side formed air shafts to bring light and air inside the rooms An improvement
but… Still not an open
balcony Garbage collected
at the bottom of the shafts
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Describe living conditions in a
dumbbell tenement Overcrowded
Unsanitary
Disease ridden
Run down
Low cost
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How did Jacob Riis expose the conditions
that existed in tenement houses?
Mastered new technology of flash photography
Showed the photographs to people in lecture halls
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What were three technological
developments that enabled cities to
house more people?
Elevator
Subway
Cable car
Elevated trains
Electric trolleys
Bessemer process
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Political Machine
An unofficial city organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power and usually headed by a single powerful “boss”
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What contributed to the rise of political
machines?
As city governments grew in size, wealth, and power, they became prizes to control. The machine enabled a local faction of one party to maintain control
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Who benefitted most from Boss Tweed’s
control of New York City?
Tweed and his allies benefitted the most His political
machine was self-serving and bad for the population of New York City
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Graft
The use of one’s job to gain profit
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Why did some people criticize graft?
Graft is distasteful because it involves using one’s position of power to exploit others.
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List 4 challenges that people living in cities
faced. Overcrowding
Disease
Danger of fires
Contaminated water
Lack in indoor plumbing