Life in the Emerging Urban Society

AP European History,

19th-century British cities used almost all for buildings, leaving no parks or open areas.

land

What did this lead to?

Population Growht

What was the reason for the awful conditions?

People moving to the cities.

What was there a lack of?

Public Transportation.

What was a walking city?

A walkable city, closer to factories.

What were the negative effects of this?

Polluted cities

what is a “slop jar”?

a waste bucket

Where was it located?

In the kitchen

What did rich people call it?

Chamber Pot

Utilitarianism was the philosophy of

Jeremy Bentham

What did he believe?

Public problems should be dealt with on a rational scientific basis.

What did he say?

“Greatest good for the greatest number.”

Who was Edwin Chadwick?

Advocate for improved public sanitation.

What could excrement from an outhouse be carried to?

A sewer, at a very low coat.

Miasmatic theory of disease?

Believed people got disease when breathing bad odors of decay

Louis Pasteur

said that disease were caused by specific living organisms

Robert Koch

understood lifecycles of harmful bacteria

Joseph Lister

“antiseptic” principle

Paris had

dark narrow streets

They thought people got more sick because

Paris streets didn’t have any sun, and therefore they thought people got sick easier because of it.

Georges Haussmann

rebuilt Paris

“Geography of Nowhere”

Mixed housing.

What did the book say?

Instead of cars being parked straightforward, they should be parked lined up.

Having cars like that makes people feel less

threatened

Americans love

cars

They said that you should mix the rich, poor, and middle class so the poor kids could grow up with a

father figure

Supported a large ___ , and car being parked in the _____

front porch, back

They believed this was mostly for

socializing

There’s a neighborhood like this called

celebration (in florida)

What is “Redneck Rivera”?

Panama City

What is apopka considered?

“a bedroom community” (cheaper housing)

Streetcar lines were adopted from

America

Cities expanded, and less congested housing due to

Suburban Commuting

Southwest Florida is,

“God’s Waiting Room.”

In the late 1800’s, “real wages”

rose

What are “real wages”?

You make more money. (Ex: If inflation goes up by 10%, the workers wages will go up by 12%.)

“Separate Spheres” refers to

the fact that men and women live in different worlds. (Usually applies to the Rich)

Country Club sports are considered

rich

Country Club Sports include:

Tennis, Golf , and Swimming.

The “glass ceiling” refers to how

A woman can achieve just as much as the man, and still get paid less.

Gaps between rich and the poor were

roughly the same

Different subclasses, which means

different states of poverty.

They put the different classes in the

same building

There were __ classes

6

Upper Middle Class

blended in with old aristocracy, many bought title, manors

“Nouveau Rich”

New Rich

Middle Class =

Rich

Middle Class Families gave

large dinner parties

Values

Christians, Stressed Hard Work, Act Morally.

What did they believe about poor people?

That it was their fault they fell into poverty.

“Labor Aristocracy” had a

strict moral code, to maintain their unstable social and economic positions.

Plump girls were a sign of

wealth

Semi Skilled Workers

blurred between highly skilled and unskilled

Drinking is the poor mans

drug

Drinking was once

socially acceptable

Commercialized spectators and sports became

popular

What were cruel sports that declined?

Cockfighting and bear-baiting

Religion Attendance

declined

Financial situation was beaten out of

economic considerations

Dowry

you give your daughters husband a bunch of money

Economic Considerations involved

marriage contracts and dowries

Sexual Experimentation before

Marriage

Illegitimate Children declined due to the result of

pregnant women getting married