April 3 through April 12 The Five Points Read Foster, New York by Gaslight Tuesday, April 3 Economic Boom Thursday, Arpil 5 New Immigration Tuesday, April 10 The Urban Menace Thursday, April 12 Discuss Foster, New York by Gaslight Discussion Large cities had been part of American since the revolution--Philadelphia, for example, was the second largest city in the British Empire by 1776. But urban life changed in the Jacksonian era. Cities like New York spurred by industrialization and by improvements like the Erie Canal, the steamship and later the railroad, grew incredibly quickly. They becae increasingly eciting ad increasingly worrisome. Click on the icon below to visit the notorius five points slum, or take a walk up Broadway to Barnum's Museum

The Old Brewery, The Five Points' notorious center of murder and squalor. click on the image for more information

Or take a walk up Broadway to Barnum's Museum