APUSH Chapter 25 Cause and Effect

New industrial jobs and urban excitement

Lured millions of rural americans off the farms and into the cities

Uncontrolled rapid growth and "new immigration" from europe

Created intense poverty and other problems in the crowded in urban slums

Cheap american grain exports to europe

Helped uproot european peasants from their ancestral land and sent them seeking new opportunities in america and elsewhere

The cultural strangeness and poverty of southern and eastern european immigrants

Provoked sharp hostilities from some native born americans and organized labor groups

Social gospel ministries and settlement house workers

Assisted immigrants and other slums dwellers and pricked middle-class consciences about urban problems

Darwinian science and growing urban materalism

Weakened the religious influence in american society and created divisions within the churches

Gov land grants and private philanthropy

Supported the substantial improvements in american under-graduate and graduate education in the late 19th century

Popular newspapers and yellow journalism

Encouraged the mass urban public's taste for scandal and sensation

Changes in moral and sexual attitudes

Created sharp divisions about the new morality and issues such as divorce

The difficulties of family life in the in industrial city

Led women and men to delay marriage and have fewer kids