WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Reformers would only help people living in tenements if they agreed to change their lifestyles.
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Negotiations between labor unions and businesses made small strides in improving the lives of workers, but it was not enough.
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The lack of laws protecting workers allowed businesses to pay workers so little that the workers had to live in crowded, unsanitary conditions.
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People had more access to entertainment in the cities than in rural areas, but the trade-off was living in smaller and more crowded housing.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As American cities industrialized throughout the nineteenth century, infectious diseases emerged as a real threat. The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais, who wrote in Pantagruel: “one half of the world does not know how the other half lives” ("la moitié du monde ne sait comment l’autre vit").
Detailed explanation-3: -The story is dark enough, drawn from the plain public records, to send a chill to any heart. If it shall appear that the sufferings and the sins of the “other half, ” and the evil they breed, are but as a just punishment upon the community that gave it no other choice, it will be because that is the truth.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the last half of the late 19th century, Chicago proved to be the fastest growing city in the world. Overall, 15.3 percent of Americans lived in cities in 1850. By 1900, that percentage had increased to 39.7, and kept growing.