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Rise of anti-vagrancy laws in major urban centers around the U.S.

1870s

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This begins a social debate that continues to this day between ideas of charity/dependence and self-sufficiency/independence. Anti-vagrancy laws punish those found "guilty" of "vagrancy" by mandating labor in workhouses, which are shelters for unhoused people that demand labor in exchange for a bed and food.