Cities Transformed Richard White, The Republic for Which it Stands, Chapter 13, Dying for Progress, pp. 500-17.

Your paper should answer the following questions:

 

What challenges did New York City face in the last decades of the 19^th Century?  How were the problems and dangers of life in New York distributed differently according to class?

 

Your paper should explore the above questions in one well-organized essay.  There is a lot of shocking material in these few pages.  Present the most important points concisely and cogently.  Concision is a virtue.  From time to time, give page numbers, to make clear where you got your information, like this:  (p. 509).