communities‚ known as suburbs‚ began to be built just beyond the city. Commuters‚ those who lived in the suburbs and traveled in and out of the city for work‚ began to increase in number. Many of those who resided in the city lived in rental apartments or tenement housing. Neighborhoods‚ especially for immigrant populations‚ were often the center of community life. In the enclave neighborhoods‚ many immigrant groups attempted to hold onto and practice precious customs and traditions. Even today‚ many neighborhoods
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In chapter 19‚ 20‚ and 21 in the textbook Out of Many‚ gives us a brief summary about some aspects that occurred in the nineteen century. The reading by James R. Barrett mostly focuses on the workplace for immigrant that migrated to Chicago while the reading by Kathy Peiss concentrates on women in the workplace. Immigrants came to the United States to escape the poverty and religious intolerance that they once had to deal with in their countries. It wasn’t easy for these European Immigrants to arrive
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In Chapter 8 of After the Fact in the article‚ “The Mirror with a Memory” by James West Davidson and Mark Lytle‚ the authors tell the story of photography and of a man names Jacob Riis. Riis came from Scandinavia as a young man and moved to the United States. Riis firsthand experienced the bad conditions in the heart of the slums of New York. He worked from place to place‚ doing odd jobs until he found a job as a police reporter for the New York Tribune. Riis lived in a slum called “The Bend.” When
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Dawes Act was a negative thing in Native American life. Many immigrants expected to find the streets paved with gold in America‚ but found that city conditions were terrible. Diseases the cholera‚ malaria‚ tuberculosis‚ and typhoid were common. Tenements‚ which were cheap places to live‚ were extremely overcrowded and unsanitary. Crime flourished in the cities. The horrible living conditions in the cities made living in America a negative experience for immigrants. Life was especially difficult
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Thesis Statement: The continuous mining in Palawan will cause degradation of the soil‚ denuding of the forests and extinction of animal and plant species thus lowering its’ biodiversity. Biological diversity‚ or biodiversity‚ encompasses the variety and abundance of plants‚ animals‚ and microorganisms as well as the ecosystems and ecological processes to which they belong. (Braatz‚ 1992) The word came from the Latin “bios” which means life and “diversitas” which means variety or differences which
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New Immigrants During the mid to late nineteenth century over 10 million European immigrants came to the United States. Most of these immigrants settled in the northeast and the Midwest looking for jobs and a better life. Many came to realize that there expectations were misguided and were forced to work long days for low wages and live in slums. There were many hardships and challenges involved when coming to America that many people were not aware of. Immigrants looked at America as a new start
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We are ashamed of Industrialization because of lots of unfair treatment and working and housing conditions. Thousands of people became sick and injured during this time period. This happened because of the rich upper-class treating the lower class like dirt and not giving them proper treatment. One of the problems in the Industrialization Era was unfair treatment. This type of treatment happened when the Chinese immigrants came in from Angel Island. These immigrants had to spend many months or years
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to the emancipation‚ major cities such as St.Peterburg and Moscow were flowed beyond their holding capacity. The growth in housing could not match the growth in population so industrial employers had to house workers in ramshackle dormitories and tenements. Most lived in unhygienic and often freezing conditions; they ate meals of stale bread and buckwheat gruel (porridge) in crowded meal-houses. Things were even worse in the factories‚ where hours were long and the work was monotonous and dangerous
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Urbanization Before the middle of the 19th century it was quite fashionable to live in the big city. People of the Upper class‚ for instance; lawyers‚ merchants‚ and manufacturers built lavish townhouses in the center of the city within walking distance of their various jobs. Middle class workers tended to live further away from the center of the city in places such as suburbs. Whereas the lower class workers lived in the back alleys and courtyards of the central city. Because of the need to be
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Rodrigo Sanchez Urban Growth during the Gilded Age: Social‚ Cultural‚ Political‚ and Economic Changes One of the most notable times during the late 19th century was the Gilded Age. This is a term often used to describe this time period since from the outside looking in urban life in America seemed perfect‚ but in reality‚ many citizens did not like the changes that were occurring. Since the verb gild means to cover with or as if with a thin coating of gold[1]‚ historians
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