What do you think this picture is showing?a) Stockyard b) Skyscraper c) Rapid Transit d) Slum e) Settlement House

What do you think this picture is showing?a) Stockyard b) Skyscraper c) Rapid Transit d) Slum e) Settlement House

What do you think this picture is showing?a) Stockyard b) Skyscraper c) Rapid Transit d) Slum e) Settlement House

What do you think this picture is showing?a) Stockyard b) Skyscraper c) Rapid Transit d) Slum e) Settlement House

What do you think this picture is showing?a) Stockyard b) Skyscraper c) Rapid Transit d) Slum e) Settlement House

Essential Question:Why did people emigrate from other countries to the United States.

Standard: SS5H3d – Describe the reasons people emigrated to the United States, from where they emigrated, and where they settled.

Big Cities

1880 - 1924

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Vocabulary Words

• Stockyard• Skyscraper• Rapid Transit• Slum• Settlement House

Immigrants and farmers moved to the cities.

• Immigrants and farmers moved to the city.– Why do you think they moved to cities?• They moved to the city because the small towns, where

farmers lived, did not offer jobs. • The invention of machines helped increase the

products produced at the farm, and fewer farmers were needed.

Chicago was a fast growing city.

• Chicago grew quickly, because it was located near transportation routes and natural resources. – Rivers and canals

linked the major cities.

– People moved here to find jobs in the factories and shops.

The cities started growing.

• Why do you think the cities started growing?– Cities grew because the businesses and factories

began to make more money, and were able to hire more workers.

– Transportation was available in the cities.

What helped the cities grow?

• Railroads and boats brought logs from the forest to the city.

• Mills turned wheat and corn into food.• Factories cut the logs to

make lumber.• Stockyards were a

large fenced in area that held cattle.

The cities started changing.

• The first skyscraper was built. – The was possible because of the growth in the

steel industry.

Technology helped expand the city.

• Technology allowed cities to grow.– How do you think having technology in the city

could benefit the people?• Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla invented ways to send

electricity to the cities.• They used electricity in elevators (which helped carry

people to all the floors in the skyscrapers), lights lit up the theater stages and electric signs, and rapid transit vehicles.

The cities started changing more.

• What kind of problems do you think this could create?– The cities grew

nosier, and more people moved in causing crowding.

– The people did not have enough places to stay.

Immigrants began living in slums.

• They couldn’t find good housing, so they lived in poorly built buildings.

• Slums are tenements, and these were not safe.

City people and immigrants helped each other.

• City people and immigrants helped each other find jobs and places to live.

• Jane Adams and Ellen Gates Star, were reformers. – A reformer is someone

helps and supports ideas to make a change.

Settlement houses were built in the cities.

• Jane Adams and Ellen Gates Star opened the Hull House in 1889. – The Hull House is a settlement house, which is a

community center for the people in the city.

What are settlement houses?

• Settlement houses are houses built to help the people in the community. – They could learn English– Get medical care– There were clubs for boys and girls– Working mothers could leave their babies in the

nursery

Think-Pair-ShareYou may choose a question from these, or you

may think of something else you learned.

• What are some advantages of living in the city?• What are some disadvantages of living in the

city?• How did Jane Adams and Ellen Gates Star help

the community?• Where did many immigrants live in the cities?

Writing AssignmentYou job is to choose to be a

farmer or an immigrant.

Immigrant

• Write a letter to the government, and state some of the problems you are facing while living in the city.

• REQUIREMENTS:

Explain your living conditions

Mention how good or bad your job is in the factory

Farmer

• Write a letter to the government, and state the problems you have experienced due to the inventions of machines.

• REQUIREMENTS:

Mention how you had to move from your home to the city

Explain why you liked your farm

Be sure to use descriptive words and complete sentences.