6urbanpoor



=Period 6=

The Problem(s)

 * to save money a lot of the **tenement owners didn't have ventilation so the fire exits that were in the back were used as air conditioning.**
 * Since their was no windows for ventilation the rooms smelled horrible, there was disease, it got awfully hot in the summer, and when there were windows and people would sleep on the window sills there was nothing there to stop them from falling straight out the window.
 * **Tenements** were usually placed in the slums and the slums were not very clean.
 * The main way of disposing of waste would be to throw it all out the window and into the street.
 * This was a huge breeding spot for disease mainly tuburcliousus.
 * Tuburcliousus was a **disease** were you would cough up blood and was at the time was uncureable.
 * Another problem that was going around is that the **government was corrupt**, so that didn't help the poor at all.
 * The urban poor got job working in **sweatshops** and it was long hours, little pay, and dangerous.
 * A **political machine**, also known as a party machine, is a party organization that entices people to vote for a party by offering rewards in exchange for loyalty and service.

The Solution(s)

 * To help out immigrants, american's fromed the **Settlement House movement**. The first settlement house was formed in the slums of east london.
 * A man named **Jacob Riis** brought to the attention of many other Americans through photograph what the por had todeal wwith every day.
 * There were many unions formed to help the urbn poor and to clean up what they were living in.
 * A lady named **Jane Addams** was one of the most outstanding humanitarians of the United States and a leader of Progressive reform. She is best known for the establishment of Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, one of the first social welfare settlement houses in the United States, and for her efforts to secure world peace. She was like a Mother Theresa.
 * Another helpping hand was the **health care reform**. The U.S. health care system is an incredibly complex network of private and public institutions. It includes scores of state and federal government agencies, along with thousands of private and public hospitals and clinics, insurance companies, drug companies, and professional organizations, as well as countless thousands of individual doctors, nurses, technologists, and other health care providers. This allowed for the poor to get proper medical attention.
 * To stop **Political Bosses** police force started to get involved by throwing them in jail.

The Images
This is a picture of what the streets looked like in the slums. this is Jacob Riis

This is a picture of an air shaft tenement in New York.

This is a picture of Jane Adams.



Depiction of William Marcy Tweed, better known as Boss Tweed, peering out of the New York City jail in this 1872 political cartoon by Thomas Nast. An illustrator known for exposing government corruption in his famous cartoons, Nast launched a campaign against Boss Tweed in 1869, which eventually contributed to Tweed's arrest.



Jacob Riis photograph of Bandit's Roost in the slum district near Mulberry Bend, one of the toughest and most neglected sections of New York City in the 1890's.

The Primary Sources, Images from Jaob Riis book: "How the other Half Lives", "Settlement Houses, Improving the social welfare of America's Immimgrants, by Michael Freedman and Brett Friedman.
=== The Citations [|http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com], sheet about the Urban Poor in class,

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