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Lesson 1 Cities 10/24/17
Problems of Cities
* Overcrowding and slum: A slum is an urban area with a lack of basic services (sanitation, potable water, electricity), substandard housing, overcrowding, unhealthy and hazardous locations, insecure tenure and social exclusion.
* Traffic congestion:Traffic congestion is a condition on transport networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.
* Lack of public services:The lack of availability of full public services from a planning and revenue
* Pollution and disease:Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Disease is a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
Political “Machines”
* Provide service to immigrants in exchange for their votes
* Profit from control of city governments.
Boss
* Boss Tweed: Leader of New York City's corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s, is delivered to authorities in New York City after his capture in Spain. Tweed became a powerful figure in Tammany Hall–New York City's Democratic political machine–in the lat
* Tammany Hall:Was a New York City political organization that endured for nearly two centuries. Formed in 1789 in opposition to the Federalist Party, its leadership often mirrored that of the local Democratic Party's executive committee.
Lesson 2 Immigration 10*24*17
Immigration
- Americanization:The role of schools
- Nativism:Dislike of foreigners
* European Immigrants:
* Old (Before1880)
* Most where English Speaking Protestants
* Where from Western Europe
“New”(1880-1924)
* From Southern and Eastern Europe
* Not English speakers
* Most of them where poor
* Took low-paying jobs
* Most where Catholic or Jewish
* Most moved to ghetto areas and cities
* Came through New York Elise Island
Asian Immigrants
* From China and Japan
* Spoke no English
* Faced discrimination in California and the West
* Chinese Exclusion Act(1882)
* Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907)
* Came through San Francisco Angel island
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