Chapter 25 Weiss

What was new immigration and why did it arouse opposition from native-born Americans?

New immigrants had come for similar reasons as to the old immigrants. To seek new opportunity. Made their ways to the cities. Southern and Eastern Europeans. Began to take over the cities. Mongrelize the Anglo race. Willing to work for less.

What was the impact of the city on American Society?

Cities grew both up and out. Cities began to draw people from the country because of the availability of industrial jobs.

Explain the efforts of the Social Reformers to assist new immigrants and ease urban problems.

Immigrants were being used as a ploy for political machines thus various people began to build programs to help these new immigrants spiritually. Many focuses were also there to support women as well.

What new problems did urbanization create? How did Americans respond to these problems?

Overpopulation, crime, sanitation. Many people began to move up the social ladder and out of the cities

What was one of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America?

The rise of large department stores

What caused Italian immigrants to arrive to the United States?

The desire to escape the poverty and slow modernization of Southern Italy.

Where did American women have the greatest opportunities?

The Big Cities

What new opportunities did the cities create for Americans?

Late Night City Lights

Electricity

Indoor Plumbing

Telephones

Megalopolis:

An extensive, heavily populated area, containing several dense urban centers.

Tenement:

A multidwelling building, often poor or overcrowded.

Despotism:

Government by an absolute tyrannical ruler.

Sweatshop:

A factory where employees are forced to work long hours under difficult conditions and meager wages.

Pauper:

A poor person, often one who live on tax supported charity

Fundamentalist:

A protestant who rejects religious modernism and adheres to a strict and literal interpretation of Christian doctrine and scriptures.

Feminist:

One who promotes the equality of women.

Prohibition:

Forbidding the sale of alcohol

Boss Tweed:

Urban political machine boss of New York

Jane Addams:

Dedicated to lifting the urban masses. Established the Hull House.

Nativism:

Antiforeignism and hatred towards immigrants.

Ellis Island:

Arrival point for many European immigrants

Booker T. Washington:

Believed in economic independence. Grudgingly acquiesced to segregation.

W.E.B. Dubois:

Demanded complete equality for African-Americans

Mark Twain:

Greatly contributed to the direction of literature in the late 1800’s.