Gilded Age
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Gilded Age
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Cities expanded to sizes never seen before, masses of workers swarmed the streets, skyscrapers reached to the sky and electric lights banished the darkness, newly wealthy entrepreneurs built spectacular mansions…
A gilded age might appear to sparkle but beneath the surface lay corruption, poverty, crime, and great disparities in wealth between rich and poor.
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Rapid Industrialization and Urbanization• caused immigrant neighborhoods and
tenements to become overcrowded
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Reason for increased immigrationHope for better opportunities
Religious freedom
Escape from oppressive governmentAdventure
choices
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• Tenements and Ghettos
• Political corruption (political machines)
Challenges faced by cities
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Urban Problems• City living posed threats• crime• violence• fire• disease• pollution• murder rates went up• Contaminated city water came from improper
disposal of sewage.• -Typhoid fever• -Cholera
Pickpockets thrived in
urban cities
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Urban Politics
In exchange for votes political machines and party bosses
provided these necessities.
• New political systems developed to meet urban problems.
• The Political Machine and the Party Boss• New city dwellers needed:
– Jobs– Housing– Food– Heat– Police Protection
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Fraud• Party bosses controlled the city’s
finances.• Political Machines: Politicians grew
rich as a result of corruption. • Tammany Hall
* NY democratic political machine• William M. “Boss” Tweed: party boss
* Tammany Hall’s corrupt leader during the 1850s and 1860’s
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The Nation Transformed
As millions continued to pour into the cities, engineers and architects
developed new approaches at housing and transporting people
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Skyscrapers • Land prices went up giving owners
incentive to grow up rather than out.• Chicago’s ten-story Home Insurance
Building (1885) was the first skyscraper.
• New York’s Manhattan Island had more skyscrapers than any other city in the world.
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Mass Transit• Various kinds of methods
developed:• Electric Trolley (Frank J.
Sprague 1887; Richmond, VA first to install)
• Elevated Railroads (Chicago)• Subway (New York City and
Boston)
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