Slums

WHO:** I know that many children, adults, and families livede their life in the ghetto along with orphan children too. SLUMS DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Draft: Slums during the industrial reolution impacted U.S history because it was the begining of poverty and everyday struggle to bring food on the table which was a great downer on American success. Slums during the industrial revolution is a time to remember because there was crime, sicknesses, poverty, and small housing that still lives on.
 * ​MY TOPIC:** My topic is about the lifestyle of children and adults living in the ghetto, or slums.
 * WHAT I ALREADY KNOW:
 * WHAT:** People lived in poverty, working long and hard hours without much pay so that they barely provide themselves with basic necesities such as food and clothes. Ther was a lot of crime in the slums.
 * WHERE:** The slums were all in a section of urban cities.
 * WHEN:** It began during the Industrial revolution when cities became abundant for jobs and goes on to modern day now.
 * WHY:** Slums were abundant because people who traveled to urban areas were working jobs that did not pay enough money resulting in people becoming poor.

The slums contained behavior such as crime, sicknesses, and people never being able to leave. "Slums are severely overcrowded urban areas characterized by the most extreme conditions of poverty, dilapidated housing, and crime." (Bruchey) It would be hard growing up in the slums as a child because you would have to aquire a lot of street smarts to be able to live with all the crime in the slums. It would probably be easy to get sick too.People got very sick in the slums because they lived in conditions that were not very clean at all.If they were to live in areas that were nicer and didnt have as much people overcrowded in them then they would probably not be getting sick."By the end of the twentieth century, a self-perpetuating condition of despair created an underclass of individuals born in the slums and likely to remain there all their lives." (Bruchey) It would be kind of sad to be born in the ghetto and not being able to leave.

The big cities started overflowing with immigrants resulting with very poor pepole or even homeless.It is very sad that immigrants moved here to have better lives and ended up living poor or homeless.It is very sad that immigrants moved here to have better lives and ended up living poor or homeless"New York passed the first housing codes in 1867, 1879, and 1901, which established light, ventilation, and housing regulations for new construction. They did nothing,however, to improve existing buildings, and often tenements built according to code still had major defects."(Bruchey)This is a good step to better housing."To accommodate the massive influx of poor immigrants, large rooms of once fashionable dwellings were subdivided into smaller rooms with no light or ventilation and primitive sanitary facilities." (Bruchey) Even though it might be harder to live in a room that is much smaller it would be good because extra room could make a whole other home where other people could live decreasing the amount of homeless people.

Most swedish people that came over to the united states moved to chicago with minimum wage jobs .I would be much happier even though I was living with minimum wage jobs because it was either that or the swedish were about to have religous per secution." An arriving immigrant family around 1900. Most immigrants of this period came from small villages and towns . If they could have purchased land in AMerica, many would have become farmers instead of city dwellers. Many did go west, but most wound up in the cities where the factories and work were to be found." (Leuzzi) It would be better for the families to be farming because that's what they were best at when they used to live in sweden. "To help eliminate slums, the U.S. government focused on building public housing in the inner cities, but this effort was inadequate to counteract the endemic problems associated with poverty."(Bruchey)It makes me a little disappointed that they couldnt elimnate the ghettos in the us because people would be way more better off without them.

Slums are not the place to be. They are quite poverty stricken resulting in crime, desieses, and homelessness. From all the way to the beginning during Industrialization times they have sprouted in civilization more thoroughly to now days where they are quite common and are in several spots of all cities.