There were no drains, sewers, rubbish disposal or filtered water supply and it made it worse how crowded the city was because of all the people that lived there. Waste was collected in dung heaps, people were walking and washing things in sewage and even getting their drinking water from it, which caused them to get ill. However people didn’t realise how bad this actually was for their health because of their poor medical knowledge so they carried on doing it. Governments had a ‘laissez faire’ attitude, which meant they didn’t want to interfere in other peoples’ lives. They wanted to intervene as little as possible so they left it alone.
The impoverished areas of New Orleans suffered the greatest losses because the houses were poorly built and many people were not educated on the danger of the coming storm. Even after the storm passed, any average Joe could walk down the streets of New Orleans, “Past variation after variation on a single theme: upended cars and boats, wrecked houses with roofs smashed in, front walls spray-painted with numbers and dates signifying when the house had been searched and how many dead bodies had been found” (Hertsgaard 130). The most preposterous part of the entire event was the sluggish and
They lived in their own filth and waste because there were no sewers or drainage to take it away, even when they threw it out of the house it would drain into the nearby rivers. They would then wash in the river and take water from it to drink, resulting in diseases that sometimes ended in death. Young children often died from diseases that could have been prevented but due to poor living conditions and undernourishment their immune systems could not fight the disease therefore the infant mortalities were high and the life expectancy was low. Medicine was not very advanced and getting medical treatment was difficult as there were not many doctors around and it
Sister Carrie and the Poverty in the Gilded Age The latter half of the 19th century saw a period of unprecedented growth and urbanization. As such, this era of American history was characterized not only by an industrial revolution, but by a cultural one as well. As the nation grew increasingly urban, so too did its people. Countryfolk flocked to industrial centres seeking employment and trying their hand at the “American Dream.” However, not all succeeded. Although innovations in technology and business allowed many to prosper, this era was also rife with the displacement and suffering of many.
The nation’s workforce expanded and Record numbers of women and children joined the workforce. The overwhelming number of immigrants arriving in America at the end of the 19th century resulted in vast ethnic and cultural diversity amongst American workers. Low wages, long hours, mistreatment and dangerous working conditions plagued workers in the absence of government regulation and oversight, igniting harsh conflicts between the various ethnic groups of the working class. Increased job competition coupled with poor working and living conditions fueled racism and nativism amongst workers. Increasing social
Private landlords provided housing at affordable rates. These houses included back to back housing, tenement blocks and cellars (Conway, 2000). The housing the private sector provided was of poor quality, with no sanitation or running water, most of the housing was largely overcrowded. Disease was the norm and in 1832 and 1849 there were major cholera epidemics which affected the middle classes as well as the poor. Due to the absence of any form of state provision, private landlords provided the majority of housing.
Throughout history, the world has experienced/gone through countless revolutions that have changed civilizations around the world. Society today is nothing like it used to be thousands of years ago, simply due to all the changes that have occurred (throughout history/through (out) time). People’s way of thinking and their lifestyles were greatly altered as a result of many revolutions. Revolutions like the Industrial Revolution, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment impacted the world so greatly, that the affects are still influencing our lives today. A period of time that drastically changed the industrial world was the Industrial Revolution.
Changes Brought By The Industrial Revolution By Richard Bledsoe (3131771) American Public University System January 18, 2012 HIST101: American History to 1877 Professor Grimm The Industrial Revolution was a period of major changes in the way products were made. It took place more than 200 years ago and greatly affected the way people lived as well as the way they worked. In earlier days, people made products by hand and worked mostly in their own homes or in small workshops. During the British Industrial Revolution, many factories were built and laborers began making large numbers of items using machinery-powered equipment. From 1760 to 1830 the Industrial Revolution was largely taking place in Britain.
There were many environmental problems, the first one being housing. When industrialisation started to take place in the 1780s there was absolutely no legislation about housing. Therefore, factories were built anywhere and with the cheapest materials possible, the only interest being profit. What often happened was that the factory owner built the houses as well as the factory. Therefore the houses were of very poor quality too--they were small
In the early 19th century, The Poor Law Act 1834 changed the approach to the poor, from the 1601 Poor Law Act. The attitude became a more punitive approach to deter people from claiming relief and get people back into work. Webb and Webb (1963). With the rise of the Industrial Revolution, competition for better paid jobs caused thousands of people to migrate from the rural areas of Britain, to the urban. Although the economy was fast growing, the over-populated, unsanitary conditions had a huge effect on people in Britain, particularly the working-class.