United States Post-1880-Urbanization

Learn about United States urbanization.

Going to Amusement Parks
Amusement parks developed in the United States in the late 1880's. They had food, games, and rides just like most today. People would come there from all over the country, enjoy themselves tremendously, and tell everyone they know about their great times. People would be thouroughly intrigued by this "Amusement Park" and decide that they need to go there also to investigate it. This would happen over and over again until virtually the whole country had heard about or gone to them.

Growing Amusement Parks
So amusement parks grew and grew. More people kept coming and coming; some, for thier second or third time, others, for their first. Eventually people who had traveled often to go there and fell madly in love with the amusement parks and moved there to prevent from traveling so much every time they wanted to go. Orlando, Florida is a perfect example of this.

Amusement Parks Changing
But coming there time after time to the same exact things, can be boring. And the people who went there got bored with the save old rides, games, and food. In order to ensure they had customers for their parks, the amusement park owners had to change their parks.

Moving to Amusement Parks
But as this was all happening, amusement parks kept springing up everywhere to urbanize, or to bring people to another place because of something they want, other parts of the country. The amusement park owners also needed people to work at the parks. So along with people coming to visit the parks, you had people moving there to get a job. But all those people getting a job at an amusement park needed clothes, food, electricity, and many other things, so you had to make supermarkets and clothing shops and so on. All of this created more jobs.

Important Urbanization Factor
So as you can see, amusement parks and like organizations have played an important role in the urbanization of the America we know today.

Social Studies/Time Continuity and Change

Standard 5: The student understands US history from 1880 to the present day(SS.A.5.3)

Standard 3: Knows the causes and consequences of urbanization that occurred in the United States after 1880 (e.g., causes such as industrialization; consequences such as poor living conditions in cities and employment conditions).

Amusement Park Activity

Urbanizing Amusement Parks- The person has little amusement park images and they can put it somewhere. They will have to decide how many amusement parks, how many peoplewill work there, and what the people that work there will need, such as supermarkets and clothing shops. Then the person has to put people in the clothing shops and supermarkets to get work there. With this activity the person will get a general idea of what urbanization is and how it works. They will also get a general idea of what was explained in the objective.

Brainstorming Fun

Idea 1. Make a list of all the places you can
think of that are getting urbanized.

Vocabulary

Urbanizaton - A place getting urbanized.

Tremendously - Greatly important.

British inventors created
machinery to preform some
of the work involved in cloth making,
such as spinning.