Learning Objective:
You
will be able to explain why new American immigrants could now live in urban
areas.
Do now:
1. Define Tenement
2. Picture Analysis:
•What
is this a picture of?
•Who
is in this picture?
Tenement Life:
- Tenements usually were poorly constructed and not very safe . Many rooms had little air circulation and often no windows.
- Tenements typically housed the lower income, or poor families of America. Often times newly arriving immigrants. It was not uncommon for there to be around 10 families to a floor.
Activity:
Letter to the Landlord:
You will write a letter from the
perspective of a new Immigrant living in a tenement.
Your letter should include:
•Who
you are
•Where
you live
•Two
things you dislike about your living space.
•Two
ways you would like your landlord to fix it.
What does Urban mean?
•Industrialized
•Developed
•City
Who lived in Urban Areas?
•Immigrants
What did they do?
•Builders
•Steel workers
What advancements were needed?
•Transportation
- Trollies
- Subways
•Sky Scrappers
For people who lived at the poverty
level, often time they lived in dangerously constructed and poorly ventilated
tenements.
•Tenements:
Large apartment complexes which featured very undersized rooms which large
families lived in.
•The
other possibility was living on the street.
Reform - Settlement Homes:
Hull House:
Summary:
Why did new American immigrants live in
urban areas?
