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Deseases
Due to close quarter living people spread germs like wildfire, wich eventually lead to the outbreak of tuberculosis, yellow fever, and cholera. -
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Progressive Era Living Conditions
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Juvenile Street Cleaning Leagues
This was created to not only clean up streets and to make living conditions better, but to teach children good ¨morals.¨ Kids would take an oath to clean up streets, playgrounds, driveways, etc. Civic sanitation on immigrant children. -
Tenement Houses
A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
A house divided into and rented out as separate residences, especially one that is run-down and overcrowded. -
Tenement House Exhibition
Reform included better ventilation, fewer number of people per tenement, limit size of building, a better water supply, fire proof in public areas and hallways, and accessible fire escapes (ladders). -
Starvation
One in three people living in the cities was close to starving to death. For many of the urban poor, living in the city resulted in a decreased quality of life. -
Books
a book called "How The Other Half lives" by Jacob Riis and another book by Daniel Eli Burtstien called "Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City" these books made reformers make it a goal to clean the streets and ensure the health of all city residents. -
Garbage Workers Strike
The garbage workers in Manhattan went on strike because of the amount of money they were making. This made the city become full of trash and unsanitary. -
Bubonic Plague
Because of the unsanitary streets in cities rats became more and more common. Rats spread diseases like the bubonic plague and asiatic cholera, which was often fatal. -
Wages
working class wages provided little more than subsistence living and few, if any, opportunities for movement out of the city slums. The immigrants and factory workers where stuck living in poverty -
Sewer Systems
Before sewer systems were put in cities streets were extremely unsanitary. Fecal matter would be all around the streets, and the stench was almost unbareable. -
Settlement Houses
The poorest neighborhoods of New York at the time. Settlements were important service providers in these communities and catalysts for Progressive Era social reform. -
Harlem
By the 1930's two-thirds of the cities black population lived in Harlem. Harlem was and is a very poor city with many living in poverty. People in Harlem were forced to pay whatever amount the landlord demanded.
