Word: the1800s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free schools were soon superseded by a city system dedicated to education for all. But generations of illiterates lived and died before this idealistic concept was even close to fulfillment. During periods in the1800s, the city tripled its population every generation. In uptown areas "splendid squares and streets are opening on every side," but amid the slums of Five Points thousands of "wretched outcasts" slept in ragged piles amid "a rubbish of bones and dirt," and "swarms of . . . barefooted, unbreeched little tatterdemalions" ran the muddy lanes like animals. As late as 1890, thousands of children of Jewish and Bohemian immigrants...