Chapter 17 NEW LIVES

The influx of immigrants, alongside a large movement of Americans from the countryside to the city, helped propel the rapid growth of cities

New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and St. Louis

New York City journalist published How the Other Half Live

1890, Jacob Riis

protests on the West Coast

anti-Chinese, 1870s

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

birthright citizenship to Native American while protecting communal property holdings.

Which specific provision was included in the Immigration Act of August 1882 to regulate entry along Atlantic Seaboard ports?

Bars on individuals deemed likely to become public charge or mentally ill

What central issue sparked the 1899 papal encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIlI to American Catholic leadership?

Debates over whether rapid cultural assimilation undermined Church unity and doctrine

How did George Washington Plunkitt define 'honest graft' in his defense of Tammany Hal's political machine?

Using inside knowledge of municipal development projects to buy land and profit upon resale

What primary goal motivated the creation of the Society of American Indians (SAI) in 1911?

Securing full United States citizenship and freedom from state

paternalism

How did Black laundresses in Atlanta organize their 1881 labor action through the Washing Society?

By striking for uniform rates and autonomy from white domestic spaces

What medical term was coined by neurologist George Beard to describe the perceived physical and nervous exhaustion of Gilded Age men?

Neurasthenia

What primary function did Anthony Comstock fulfill as a special agent of the United States Postal Service after 1873?

Censoring mail containing birth control literature or material deemed obscene

How did Thomas Edison's company initially display motion picture films through the kinetoscope in the early 1890s?

Allwoing isngle viewer to lookk trhough asmall eyepirec in arcade parlors

What major architectural feature at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition influenced the City Beautiful movement?

The Neoclassical ‘White City’ desing combing organized walkways, canals, and classical facades

Emma Lazarus composed her famous 1883 sonnet 'The New Colossus' specifically to support which fundraising initiative?

Construction of the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal

In his 1876 address to charity officials in Saratoga, New York, what primary justification did Franklin Benjamin Sanborn offer for federal immigration regulation?

European paupers introduced disease, crime, and idelness to East Coast cities.

What expansion of federal excludable categories was passed by Congress in 1885 in response to organized labor complaints?

Immigrants migrating under pre-arranged labor contracts with american employers

Why did Native American leaders like Clinton Rickard and Pablo Abeita oppose the Society of American Indians' push for universal U.S. citizenship?

They feared full citizenship would erode native soverignty and commual landholdings

How did the United States government practically suspend the immigration of Japanese laborers in 1907?

informal bilateral agreement where Japan stopped issuing emigrant passports

What detail from the 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Georgia illustrates the 'public spectacle' nature of racial violence in the New South?

Special passenger trains brought four thousand spectators from atlanta to witness the execution

How did higher education reform at Harvard under Charles William Eliot reshape traditional American university instruction?

By replacig a stictly guided classical curriculum with an open ended elctive systme

What specific medical treatment prescribed to women in the Gilded Age was critiqued by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?

The ‘rest cure’ for sychological distress

During his 1889 visit to Chicago, what aspect of American culture did author Rudyard Kipling scathingly critique?

The uncritical equating of technoligal infrastructure and waealth creation with true progress

What role did the 1890 version of the Morrill Land Grant Act play in the education of Black Americans?

It provided federal subsidies for black colleges in sttes that had segrated universities

Which early cinematic technology allowed for the projection of films to large audiences, moving away from individual viewers in arcades?

Vitascope

Which of the following best characterizes the 'Juan Crow' system mentioned in the source material?

A set of segregated practices targeting ethnic mexicans, partcularly spanish-speakers and those with darker skin

Which social reformer and author critiqued the 'rest cure' for women in the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman