Childrens Resettlement
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The Children's Resettlement
In the 1850's the industrial revolution began to take place and with that thousands of workers moved to the east for job opportunities. New York City's population increased to around 500,000 people and roughly 30,000 of those were homeless children living on the streets. Because of the high number in homeless children a movement that lasted seventy-five years and would save between 150,000 to 200,000 waifs, fighting for survival on the streets of New York, first began. This movement is known as The Orphan Train movement. As the number of children living on the streets with no food or shelter rapidly increased, the problem became very large. The children swarmed the streets pleading for food, eating from garbage cans and sleeping on the sidewalks. To resolve the problem with the growing number of children living on the streets the Children's Aid society came up with an idea to move the children to states in the mid-west, particularly Kansas, Indiana, and Missouri. It was thought that moving the children to these states would create better lives for the children. However, the result was actually different than what it was hoped to be. Even though the Orphan Train was a project designed to create better lives for the orphaned children the result was not always as it was hoped to be...