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Poetry Slam- Urban Problems

-because of rapid development 1800's many problems in urban area -many people were poor and could only live dirty overcrowded poorly built tenements houses - disease spread easilyt through tenements - lack clean water public health regulations and garbage disposal - many risks for the immigrants - 1832 and 1849 cholera epidemic NYC - disease made urban life dangerous - as populations grew criminal activity escalated - NY Boston Philladelphia had no permanent police - they relied on volunteers to fight crime in urban areas - shprtages of fire companies and only had ahnd pumps and buckets - sanitation workers and road maintenence workers were scarce which created problems for these urban areas - by 1860 almost 80% of americans lived in urban areas -many people worked to help sanitation issues in the cities -300 0f every 1000 in urban areas would die/200 more than in towns - Noise, traffic jams, slums, air pollution, and sanitation and health problems in cities -the gov did little to nothing to change it - people living in tenements had little privacy and were crammed together - by 1890 there were 1.25 million people living in tenement houses - not much effort made to clean up garbabe and other materials left in streets and neighborhoods - crime rates were very high and no permanent police force - urban areas became separated by races and ethnicities -