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TOUR UNIT TWO
The Lower East Side- City of Immigrants: From the "Five Points"
to the Present
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Day 1 |
Infrastructural Revolutions: The Grid, the Erie Canal, Streetcars,
Railroads and Water
HA 68-77; 82-83 (review Divine
on the Erie Canal and railroads)
Transit
and Infrastructure Timeline
Crane,
Maggie a Girl of the Streets, Chapters 1-5
Infrastructural
Revolution DBQ
How do the infrastructural improvements of the 1820s and 30s engender
the immigration of the 1830s and 40s? How do these improvements, in turn, engender
further immigration?
1) What is the significance of
the Erie Canal? The Croton System?
2) How does infrastructure drive
growth and immigration?
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Immigration and the Birth of the Five Points
HA 80-81; 84-85; 98-99
Epic Chapter 18
Five
Points and Cholera DBQ
Crane,
Maggie a Girl of the Streets, Chapters 6-8
What was the view of the cause of poverty, disease and the nature
of the poor in the 1840s?
1)Using the handout, explain how
the outsiders view of the Five Points changed from the 1840s to
the 1890s to today.
2) What is the class and gender
basis of the temperance and moral reform movement in NYC?
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Day 3-4 |
Streetwalkers, Sinners and Slums
Finish
Crane, Maggie: A Girl of The Streets
Stansell,
City of Women
1)How might the Stansell reading
inform your understanding of Maggie
? What is the place of gender in the elite perception of the poor?
2) What is the nature of the fighting
in the book. Who is fighting
whom? Why is their fighting significant? How does gender affect
the nature of the fighting and the outcome? |
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Day 5-6 |
Five Points Run Riot: The Astor Place Riot (1849), The Temperance
Riots (1853) and the Police Riot (1857)
Epic Chapter 19 and 22
To turn in:
Please read Epic and the
viewers' guide to the Five Points video and answer one of
the questions below (to turn in)
Choose one "riot"
from the Five Points
Run Riot: Class Conflict in NY timeline and describe it in
a few sentences (to turn in)
in class video: Five Points
1) What was the significance of
the theater and saloon in the lives of the Irish-American working
class?
2) How were the Irish perceived
by the "native" American public?
How do Evangelical Protestant reformers explain poverty? How do they use religion as a means of reform,
uplift, social control? Why
do they focus on temperance as a means of reform?
3) How did party politics
(Democratic, Know-Nothing, Republican) contribute to the riots
of the 1840s and 50s? |
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Day 7-8 |
Abolition, The Draft Riots and African-American Migration up Manhattan
HA, 96-7, 138-9
Epic Chapter 24
Draft
Riots DBQ
For the following questions use
the Draft Riots DBQ, Epic and HA for reserach. Make a blank base
map of Manhattan on a blank 8 and 1/2 by 11 inch sheet and make
two copies (save the original for later assignments):
1)Using the map in Gotham and
a blank map of your own creation, create a geographical timeline
of the Draft Riots. Where and when did the events of the riot
unfold? Create a legend that numbers each critical event in order,
then put the numbers in the proper location on the map. Use colior
to make the map more legible (see maps in HAand the DBQ for guidance
as well)
2) On another map blank, plot
the migration of African Americans up Manhattan Island. Where,
when and why do they move? Illustrate the migration and explain
it on your map.
EXTRA CREDIT: See Gangs
of New York and assess its historical accuracy. Does it get
the facts right? Does it get the story right? Use specific examples
form the film and your reading. |
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Day 9 |
Tammany Hall: The Rise and Fall of Machine Politics
Epic Chapter 26
Riordan, Honest Graft from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
Handout of Thomas Nast cartoons
Discuss tour location and choose
stops (in groups)
1) In serving itself did Tammany
serve a public good? What was so terrible about the machine? Who
were more democratic, the
bosses or the reformers? With whom do you sympathize? |
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Day 10 |
The Tenement and Housing Reform
HA, 110-111
Slide
Sheet: The Five Points, Jacob Riis and Reforming the "Slums"
Blight Chart
Classroom and web research
1)How did reformers seek to deal
with the tenement problem? How was it finally solved?
2) How do developments in public
health, city administration and the secularization of society
converge to change attitudes toward the poor, poverty and the
slums? |
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Day 11 |
The New Immigrants: Kleinedeutschland, Little Italy, Chinatown and the Jewish Lower
East Side
HA, 98-99, 132-133, 136-137
Epic Chapter 33
Submit quiz questions
1) How do immigrants choose their
destinations in NYC? How does one group replace another?
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Day 12 |
Tour: The Lower East Side- City of Immigrants: From the Five Points
to the Present
Essex and Delancey (SE) 9am to
3pm
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Day 13 |
Quiz, debrief on tour and post
contributions on the Gotham map website |
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