Urbanization & Industrialization!!

Recap

Urbanization & Industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...What a subject. This was the time when cities started to get over crowded. If you want a mental picture, picture New york City, with twice the population it has now. Crowded right? Well thats what it was like then. Most of the neighborhoods were slums were all of the poor people stayed. mosthad dieases. Which really wasn't good because all of these people were crammed into these little neighborhoods. Which made it ery easy for these diseases to spread and kill many of these people.That caused a decrease in poulation. Many of these poor children were forced to work in factories. Poor little children that were orphans, that was their everyday life. Once they were put into orphaneges they were taught to do things they were gonig to be doing in factories. I can't imagine working in a factory at four years old.

There was a ton of new technology coming out at this time also!

1.)Like good old Henry Bessemer, he develope a process to purify iron ore and produce a new iron, steel! 2.)Swedish Chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite! So you can say thanks to him we get fireworks on the 4th of July! 3.) Electricity replaced steam in the late 1800s thanks to old Benjamin Franklin!4.) Alessandro Volta invented the battery (hint the volta)

5.)Thomas Edison made the first light bulb.6.) In the 1900s, manufacturers made a new method of production, the assembly line.7.) Nikolaus Otto invented a gasoline powered combustion engine. 8.) Karl Benz invented the first automobile. 9.) Henry Ford created a mobile that reached 25 miles per hour! Holy cow! Thats so fast!

10) Everyone knows the Wright brothers for the first airplane.

11.)Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio! I love that guy!

Revisit & Reflect

The most interesting city to live in would be New York City. Why? I don't need research to tell you. New York is just the coolest place ever. Especially on new years eve. Why else? It's the city that never sleeps, things are always happening there. People are discovered there like celebrities. Plus that city is full of fashion designers:D. I think I would meet a lot of interesting people there. Do interesting things. The only negative thing about this place is the crime rate there. People are always dying there. It's scary. Or someone is getting robbed. Thats why I will be carrying pepper spray with me when I visit:).

Resources:

http://newyork.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/04/25/2009-04-25_city_crime_still_falling.html