TASK

Create a graphic organizer that illustrates several characteristics of urbanization in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. Your project should include the following:

• Impact of immigration, rural to urban migration and population pressures
• Municipal problems including sanitation, housing conditions, living conditions, police & fire protection etc.
• Impact of technological innovations including new transportation, communication, and energy systems, consumer goods, etc.
• Opportunities for leisure and recreation.
• Solutions/Reforms designed to solve these problems and improve the quality of life in American cities.

This project should...

• Be constructed in a way that clearly illustrates interconnections between different aspects of urbanization.
• Be richly illustrated with photos, drawings, graphs, charts, and/or maps
• Support your graphic organizer with some quotes from primary sources.
• Demonstrate thorough research from both the textbook and online sources.
• Be a collaborative effort in which each group member participates to the best of his or her ability.

Gilded Age and Progressive Era Resources: See “New Immigration & Urban America” Section

http://www.tntech.edu/history/gilprog.html

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: You must look at this site! It includes lots of pictures in the “illustrations section.”

http://tenant.net/Community/Riis/contents.html

The Tenement Museum

http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html

Ellis Island Museum

http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html

Biography of Jane Addams

www.ushistory.net/toc/addams.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html