Five Points, Manhattan

Picture Manhattan in 1860, a time before the city had been dolled up and gotten ready for the silver screen, before the glamour and allure took over. Amsterdam Vallan (DiCaprio) is a young Irish man that migrates to the USA at a young age. Amsterdam’s story takes place in Five Points District of New York, a filthy and dangerous part of the city before it was deleted form history. As a young boy Vallan witnessed his father’s murder at the hand of William Cutting or Bill the Butcher (Day-Lewis) during

movie, there are two of the many gangs in the five points prepping for a brawl to see who would control the five points. Amsterdam Vallon walks with his father, the leader of the Dead Rabbits Gang, to Paradise square where the brawl would take place. Bill “The Butcher” Cutting, the leader of the Bowery Boys, leads his gang to the square. The fight ensues Bill has eventually killed Priest Vallon which ensured that the Bowery boys would control five points. Amsterdam is sent away, he returns years

Photographs for a cause Through the late 1800s and the early 1900s, the division between financial classes was great. Big businesses and monopolies ruled the market, making great financial powers such as J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and more. On the other hand, middle to lower class citizens struggled to pay their bills, lived in houses of fifteen people, worked in mine shafts from the age of twelve, and had miserable lives in the city. The lives of the lower class was captured

Jacob Riis was a journalist who made a big impact on society during the progressive era. He managed to open the eyes of the wealthy and showed them the brutal conditions of the poor in New York City during the progressive era. All the way from the time he was very young, he was helping people in need. His background from where he grew up definitely impacted his motives behind his causes. Jacob Riis altered society in a big way during the early 1900s. Motivation Riis was inspired by his past experiences

intense battle the "nativists" win by killing the leader of the "dead rabbits", also Amsterdam's (the main character's) father. Amsterdam is then led into an orphanage where he grows to be a man, all while Bill Cutting runs the Five Points, and most of New York. The Five Points is a district of New York City and obviously the most corrupt. Crime is all to common, and sickness runs rampant in the area. Although very underdeveloped, Amsterdam has sworn to revenge his

the Five Points, was notoriously known for its vice and crimes. The first organized crime group in New York City was the Forty Thieves which was led by Edward Coleman, started in 1825, in the back of a grocery store. The Dead Rabbits were an Irish gang in the Five Points area, and are most known for the riot they caused in 1857. The Eastman Gang were a Jewish group in the Five Points area, which began in the late nineteenth century, and were the rival of the Five Points Gang. The Five Points Gang

Introduction Five Points was a neighborhood that was known to the Americans during the 1800s. It's mostly filled with Irish, German, African American, and Chinese immigrants. People's life circumstances weren't very good; it can be described as harsh. As many rich visitors went to visit the place , their reaction was ''unimaginable.'' Factors: Economic How Five Points began and what changed all that Five Points began as an opulence place. Opulence means great

sixth grade and joining a local neighborhood gang. There he met Johnny Torio, who would be his eventual mentor for the crime organization in the city of Chicago. Soon Capone really hit the big time in organized crime when he joined the famous Manhattan Five Points Gang and their leader

“There’s no such thing as good money, or bad money. There’s just money.” - Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, Lucky Luciano one of America’s notorious gangster. He was a criminal with a slow uprising to becoming top boss. He vanquished his rivals with brutal force. Salvatore Lucania was a brutally organized Italian born crime boss who greatly influenced the American society during his time. Luciano’s interest in crime started at the age of 4. He was born by the name of Salvatore Lucania in Sicily, Italy

mobster life because Johnny Torrio was one of Brooklyn’s most notorious mobsters. (Gottesman & Brown) Not too long after working as a bouncer, Al took a blade to the face and that’s how he got the nickname “Scarface”. He was soon welcomed into the Five Points Gang where he partook in burglary, prostitution, long-sharking, and extortion. (Dictionary of American Biography) In late 1919- early 1920’s, Torrio moved to Chicago to partner up with mobster, Jim Colosimo and took young Al Capone with him (he