The lecture, “The Politics and Culture of Industrial America”, of Chapter eighteen had to do with many things that went on during the industrialization era. One of those things was, the urbanization or the “growth of cities”. We get some examples of tenements, in which families or large amounts of people used to live. They were small, crowded rooms. Most of the people that lived in these tenements tended to be immigrants. One of the pictures that got my attention was the picture of the children on slide number three. In this picture we can see children sleeping by a fire escape. We can see the poverty and unfit conditions, in which children and people of all ages lived in. The children were cold, so they sat on a fire escape and they are