Tenements in brooklyn, new york. 1890.
IN THE LATE 1800S, CITIES IN AMERICA BEGAN GROWING QUICKLY. IMMIGRANTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD MOVED TO OUR COUNTRY AND FOUND THEMSELVES IN BIG CITIES LIKE CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, AND NEW YORK CITY. THIS RAPID GROWTH CREATED ISSUES WITH OVERPOPULATION. THE IMAGE ABOVE SHOWS THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE, SPECIFICALLY IMMIGRANTS, HAD TO LIVE IN. THE BUILDINGS PICTURED WERE CALLED TENEMENTS. THEY WERE RUNDOWN, CHEAP APARTMENT BUILDINGS SHOVED INTO THE POOR PARTS OF TOWNS AND CITIES. DISEASE SUCH AS TUBERCULOSIS INFECTED THESE AREAS, CAUSING 60% OF BABIES TO DIE BEFORE THEY EVEN TURNED ONE. THE STREETS WERE FLOODED WITH SEWAGE AND WASTE, FIRES HAPPENED ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND FRESH AIR WAS SCARCE.
NEW YORK CITY, BETWEEN 1890-1910.
THE BESSEMER PROCESS ALLOWED SKYLINES TO GROW TALLER IN THE 1890S. LONGER BRIDGES, HEAVIER MACHINERY, AND MORE SHIPBUILDING WAS DONE. AMERICAS CITIES BEGAN TO EXPAND AND MODERNIZE. THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS A DIFFERENT NEW YORK CITY THEN THE ONE THAT EXISTED IN THE EARLIER YEARS. THE BUILDINGS RESEMBLE MORE OF WHAT WE SEE TODAY. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE IN THE STREETS SHOWING A RISE IN POPULATION. THE PICTURE ALSO SHOWS WHAT WE WOULD ASSUME TO BE A RICHER PART OF NEW YORK, IN CONTRARY TO THE PREVIOUS PICTURE OF THE TENEMENTS.
transcontinental railroad connects for the first time at Promontory point, Utah. 1869.
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WAS THE FIRST SET OF TRACKS THAT CONNECTED THE EASTERN AND WESTERN UNITED STATES. IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM CHINA AND EUROPE TO BUILD IT. THE PEOPLE DOING LABOR NEEDED A PLACE TO STAY WHILE DOING THEIR JOB. CITIES FORMED ALONG THE WAY, AND FLOURISHED MORE SO AFTER THE RAILROAD WAS FINISHED BEING BUILT. THIS INCLUDES POPULAR LOCATIONS SUCH AS SALT LAKE CITY AND PITTSBURGH.
IMMIGRANTS ENTER AMERICA THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY. 1902.
IMMIGRANTS ENTERED THE UNITED STATES THROUGH ONE OF TWO PLACES; ANGEL ISLAND IN CALIFORNIA, OR ELLIS ISLAND IN NEW YORK. BOTH OF THESE ENTRANCE POINTS WERE IN US CITIES THAT GREW IN POPULATION WHEN IMMIGRANTS STARTED PUSHING IN. THE PICTURE ABOVE SHOWS A LINE OF PEOPLE FROM EUROPE WAITING TO ENTER THE UNITED STATES. AMERICAN CITIES SUCH AS NEW YORK WERE SEEN AS PLACES OF OPPORTUNITY AND NEW BEGINNINGS FOR THESE PEOPLE WHEN THEIR HOME COUNTRY WAS PUSHING THEM AWAY.
JUDGE, 1891.
ABOVE IS A POLITICAL CARTOON FROM THE 1890S SHOWING IMMIGRANTS FLOODING INTO AMERICA, AND UNCLE SAM LOOKING OVER THEM. WHEN PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD CAME INTO OUR COUNTRY, THE PEOPLE FEARS THAT THEY WOULD STEAL THEIR JOBS AND RUIN THE AMERICAN CULTURE. THIS RELATES TO AMERICAN CITIES BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULD COME INTO BIG PLACES LIKE LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK CITY, AND CHICAGO. THEY WOULD CREATE THEIR OWN CULTURAL COMMUNITIES BUT ALSO LIVED IN THE POOR TENEMENT PARTS OF THOSE CITIES.
BOSS TWEED, BY THOMAS NAST.
BOSS TWEED WAS ONE OF THE POLITICAL BOSSES OF TAMMANY HALL IN NEW YORK CITY. HE USED THE IMMIGRANTS AS OPPORTUNITY TO GET MORE VOTES AND MONEY. HE EXPLOITED THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK AND STOLE FROM THEM. BOSS TWEED WAS BASICALLY OWNED THE VOTES OF NEW YORK CITY UNTIL THOMAS NAST, THE CREATOR OF THE ABOVE CARTOON, TOOK HIM DOWN.
1)New York, New York
2)Chicago, Illinois
3)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4)Brooklyn, New York
THESE WERE THE MOST POPULATED US CITIES IN 1890. IT SHOWS THAT EVEN THOUGH THE WESTERN UNITED STATES WAS BECOMING MORE POPULAR, MANY PEOPLE STILL FOUND HOME IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. IMMIGRANTS CAME TO NEW YORK CITY AND MAY HAVE ENDED UP IN BROOKLYN (RIGHT OUTSIDE MANHATTAN). PHILADELPHIA WAS CLOSE BY, AND CHICAGO WAS POPULAR FOR ITS INDUSTRY AND ACCESS BY RAILROAD.
2)Chicago, Illinois
3)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4)Brooklyn, New York
THESE WERE THE MOST POPULATED US CITIES IN 1890. IT SHOWS THAT EVEN THOUGH THE WESTERN UNITED STATES WAS BECOMING MORE POPULAR, MANY PEOPLE STILL FOUND HOME IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. IMMIGRANTS CAME TO NEW YORK CITY AND MAY HAVE ENDED UP IN BROOKLYN (RIGHT OUTSIDE MANHATTAN). PHILADELPHIA WAS CLOSE BY, AND CHICAGO WAS POPULAR FOR ITS INDUSTRY AND ACCESS BY RAILROAD.