Spring 2001

Week 3: Lecture 6

Urban America

I. American Culture in the Nineteenth Century

II. "America Was Born in the Country and Moved to the City"

III. Urban Growth: Where Did All These People Come From?

A. Natural increase

B. Migration from farms
IMAGE: African American Family in Chicago

C. Immigration
IMAGE: Ellis Island
IMAGE: Ellis Island Scene
IMAGE: Ellis Island Scene

IV. Why Did People Immigrate to America?

V. What Type of Person Came?

VI. How Did People Migrate?
IMAGE: The Journey Across the Ocean

VII. Why Did They Settle in Cities?

VIII. What Was Life Like in These Immigrant Enclaves?
IMAGE: Crowded New York Street, 1895
IMAGE: Tenement Scene
IMAGE: Tenement Scene
IMAGE: Sweatshop

IX. Americanization: The Challenge of Preserving Old Values While Adjusting to the New

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