The Age of the City

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The Age of the City
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Urbanization

• Migration
• Immigration
• Assimilation
• Exclusion
• American Protective Association
• Immigration Restriction League

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Redefining the city

• Public Parks
• Frederick Law Olmstead
• Public cultural centers
• Philanthropy
• 1893 Columbian Exposition of Chicago
• Housing Developments
• Suburbs
• Tenement buildings
• Jacob Riis
• Infrastructure
• Transportation
• Roads bridges
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Skyscrapers

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Tenement Building in New York
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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Jacob Riis Photographs
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Children on the street
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The Bar Room
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Impoverished Workers
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Problems of the City

• Disasters
• Great Fires
• Chicago
• Earthquakes

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Great Chicago Fire
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San Francisco Earthquake 1906
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Problems of the city (cont)

• Department of Water Works
• Medical and sanitation advances
• Crime
• Poverty
• deserving poor
• Salvation Army
• Crime rate increases
• Political machine
• William M. Tweed

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Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
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Some improved working conditions

• Henry Ford
• Assembly Line
• Frederick Taylor
• Scientific Mgt.

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Henry Ford
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Ford Assembly Line
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Did you know?????Prices in the early 1900s

• Average house 2,000
• Annual salary 708.00
• Gallon of gas 5 cents
• Fords Model A 850.00
• Fords Model T 575.00after the assembly line

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Trends in Shopping

• Rising incomes
• Women in the marketplace
• Consumers
• National Consumer League
• New opportunities
• Department stores
• Chain stores
• A P
• F. W. Woolworth

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Entertainment

• Sporting Events
• Baseball
• Barn storming
• Football
• Basketball
• James Naismith
• Prize Fighting
• Music and Theatre
• Vaudeville
• Nickelodeons
• Motion picture
• D.W. Griffith

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Entertainment (cont)

• Pleasure Parks
• Central Park
• Coney Island
• Luna Park
• Dreamland
• Literature
• Newspaper production
• Dime novels
• The Red Badge of Courage

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Central Park
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Coney Island
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Coney Island Attractions 1925-1940
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Luna Park
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Stephen Crane
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Other forms of entertainment

• Family gatherings
• Telephone
• Switchboard

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Growth in Education

• Public Schools
• Colleges and Universities
• Private institutions
• Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862

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Women in the Victorian Age

• Separate spheres
• Higher education
• Mount Holyoke
• Changing roles in society

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Queen Victoria
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Victorian depiction of women
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• Main Course Channel Catfish 20 Pork
  Tenderloins 20 Omelet with Jelly 15 Roast
  Pork with Applesauce 20 Chicken Fricassee 20
  Roast Beef 15 Pork and Beans 15
• Corn on the Cob 10 Buttered Beets 5 Mashed
  Potatoes 5 Pickled Beets 5 Cole Slaw 5
  Salad 10

• Vegetables Appetizers Half of a Cantaloupe 10
  Sliced Orange 10 Young Onions 5 Sliced
  Tomatoes 10 New Radishes 5 Sliced Cucumbers
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• Soup Old Fashion Navy Bean 10
• Drinks Coffee 5 Milk 5 Tea 5 Dessert
  Lemon Layer Cake 5 Ice Cream 10 Ice Cream
  and Cake 15 Raspberries and Cream 10 Rhubarb
  Pie 5 Green Apple Pie 5

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First class Smoking Room
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1st Class Staterooms on Titanic
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Did you Know????

• Cost of a ticket (one way)First-Class (parlor
  suite) 870/4,350 (50,000 today).First-Class
  (berth) 30/150 (1,724 today).2 Executive
  Suites on Board ( 78,000 today)

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2nd Class Cabins

• Cost of a Second-Class ticket (one way) 12/60
  (690 today).

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• Cost of a Third-Class ticket (one way) 3/15 to
  8/40 (172 to 460 today).