Amara

. wealthy left behind were tore down to make five or six story apartment buildings for new Brian Blackwell Jamal Cheers D’Shawntae Lewis Moriah Myles Amara Tyler


 * The Challenge of the Cities**

The main idea of section 3 was millions of people moved into the cities, creating new growth and new challenges. While immigrants were coming in from left and right the wealthy began to flee. They headed toward the north in expensive homes and neighborhoods. The homes that the coming immigrants. Italian and Jewish immigrants were rapidly coming in during the 1890’s. They took over the lower east side. While immigrants began to migrate 11 million Americans left the hardships of farm life and headed to the cities. More living residents were established to accommodate the new comers, apartment buildings such as tenements and dumbbell tenements. Living conditions among these people were poor. It was a time of illness and a need for isolation. Many believe that poor ventilation contributed to this problem. While political authorities were aware about this situation they did little to nothing to correct it. The only thing that they were concerned about was getting money off of the work others was doing. This process is called graft. Political Machines such as William Taft was unfair to the people. He did not care about their wellbeing. Recently we have seen some examples of how immigrants were treated when they first arrived. It was not a pretty sight. People were being injured left and right. Stones were being thrown and men, women, and children. I believe that this is a prime example of ignorance among us as Americans. We were and still are so afraid of change that we will go any distance to keep everything just as it is. It is time for us to grow up and accept change because it’s coming whether we want it to or not.