Utah Society

The Turn of the Century

Objective

• Students will understand how Utah Society was during the early 1900’s.

Urbanization

• By 1890, 36 percent of Utahns lived in cities.(compared to 34 percent of people nationally)

Urban Transportation

• Beginnings of a Mass Transit System• In 1889, Salt Lake got its first electric street

railway.

Why Did People Move to the Cities?

• The main reason was work• Smelting, Construction, Operation of Railroads

Urban Amenities

• In 1880, Salt Lake replaced the older gas lights on main street with electric lights.

• Telephone service came to Utah’s cities in the 1880’s as well.

Urban Problems

• Spiraling Crime• Commercial Street• Opium Dens

Pollution

• In the 1800’s, the cities supplied water in open ditches and many people simply dumped their trash in the same channels.

• In the 1880’s, cities began laying pipes, but work was slow and in 1890, Salt Lake still had only five miles of pipe laid.

Pollution

• The smelters and coal fires in businesses and homes fouled the air with smoke and soot.

• This dirtied the cities and choked people’s lungs.

• Though some legislature was passed, politicians in the late 1800’s were often too afraid of offending business owners to make any big changes.

New People

Immigrants

• Germans, Dutch, Swiss came from continental Europe in the 1800’s.

• After 1900, many immigrants also came from southern European countries like Greece and Italy.

• Settling in coal camps and mining towns, many Italian immigrants found backbreaking labor and disgusting living conditions.

The Auerbachs

• The Auerbach brothers were Jewish immigrants who became prominent businessmen in Salt Lake City and founded the Auerbach’s store in 1864, which became known as the “People’s Store.”

African Americans

• A number of black pioneers came over with the first wagon trains.

• Black cavalry and infantrymen served in Fort Duchesne and Fort Douglas.

Native Americans

• Reservations were created• Acculturation programs were implemented

(often underfunded)• Forts and military posts were created to

control Native American movements and prevent intertribal rivalry

New Religions

Other Religions

• The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine was dedicated in 1909.

• Father Lawrence Scanlan was responsible for the building of the cathedral.

• The Congregation Montefiore Jewish Synagogue served the needs of Salt Lake City’s Jewish community.

• The old Presbyterian Church in Smithfield was both a church and a school.

Thought Question

• Do you think that cultural diversity makes a society more healthy or more weak? Why?

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