Urban+Renewal

New York's population -19,306,183

1888-The government wanted too take over New York City over these 4 days, At least 119 people would be killed. At least African- Americans would be beaten and hanged. Millions of dollars in property damaged would be lost,and over 3000 people would be left homeless and in destitutionand, by the time it was over, New Yorkers would be forced to ask to ask themselves how and why such a horrible thing could happen.

1900 -Cities began to offer more opportunites, many people started to leave rural areas and started coming to urban areas. Over the next two decades urban area growth rate was 650% greater then rural growth. Approximately 33% of population lived in places with more then 8,000 inhabitants, by 1920 that percentage increased to 44%. Smalls groups of Americans strived to provide satisfactory housing, transportation, fire protection, and police service. By 1925 cities grew into a jungle, skies where dark from smog, smoke and grime your white shirt would turn black from all the stuff in the air. The city was an exciting place to live, cities grew rapidly. The city had many problems. such as housing. the housing was bad, if you would of live in the 1900 in the cities you would live in an apartment with many other family's, the sanitation was bad and it became worse as more people moved in. They attempted to make more houses, special kind of houses called Tenements, they were cheaply made buildings divided into apartments. The hallways of these apartments served as a playground for kids in the winter time. It had bad ventilation, in the winter time the air was stale and durning the summer the air was very, very hot. It made it kind of hard to breath. The poor areas where these apartments were made were called the slums. The city's government was not prepared to deal with all the problems of the slums. The slums had a lot of problems and these apartments were only one of them.