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| worked on and perfected skyscrapers in Chicago |
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indoor plumbing, electricity, and telephones.
electric trolleys were necessary to commute around huge cities |
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-cheap, disposable products created LOTSA TRASH... SMELLY TRASH.... very smelly trash indeed.
-criminals flourished
-slums
--dumbbelltenements - dark, little ventilation
-impure water
-smelly
-unwashed bodies |
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| first wave of immigrants (old immigrants) |
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-1850s to 1870s
-came from British Isles and western Europe
-literate
-protestant except for Catholic irish and germans |
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| second wave of immigrants (new immigrants) |
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-1880s and after
-south and east europe - italians, croats, slovaks, greeks, poles
-orthodox
-largely illiterate
-quickly outgrew first wave of immigrants
-helped spread judaism and roman catholicism (grew most dramatically) |
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reasons for Coming to america
(cheesecake... jk) |
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people can eat everyday (HALLELUJAH)
freedom!
oppurtunity!
fresh grass! |
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| what immigrants often did |
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-some only stayed for short period and returned to native land with money
-those that remained held to their culture and customs
-children of immigrants plunged into American life and rejected Old World culture |
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provided shelter and jobs in return for political support at polls
CORRUPTION |
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| Hull House and Jane Addams |
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jane Addams founded it to teach children and adults the skills and knowledge that they would need to survive and succeed in America
-worked towards general goals such as antisweatshop laws to protect women and child laborers.
-won nobell peace prize
-pacifism got her kicked out of daughters of the american revolution |
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settlement houses became centers for womens activism and reform
women fought for protection of women workers and against child labor
new cities = mroe oppurtuinites for women |
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| Theory of evolution bad for religion (especialy protestant) |
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churches should deal with social issues of the day
people connected to social gospel:
Walter Rauschenbusch
Washington Gladden |
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old immigrants blamed new immigrants for degrading urban government
-trade unionists hated new immigrants for willingness to work for super low wages |
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anti-foreign organization:
American Protective Association (APA) |
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against new immigrants
labor leaders tried to stop new immigration
-immigrants often broke up strikes |
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| restrictive immigration laws |
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no paupers (poor), criminals, and convicts... and i think prostitutes too, but im not sure
-law banned importing foreign workers under certain contracts
-literacty tests for immigrants
-Chinese exlusion act banned chinese people |
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| Darwin and his crazy ideas |
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doctrine of evolutionism
modernists refused to believe that the bible was completely accurate and factual
robert ingersoll - denounced creationism (pro darwinism) |
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more public schools and free textbooks payed by taxpayers
high schools increased
catholic schools increased
Chautauqua movement - public lectures to help adults who couldnt go to schools |
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-ex slave
-avoided issue of social equality
-believed in blacks helping themselves before gaining more rights
-headed a black normal and industrial school in alabama to teach useful skills/trades
George Washington Carver - one of bookers students (peanut butter man)
he believed that economic independence was ticket to black political and civil rights |
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-his name is stupid
-first black to get a Ph. D from Harvard University
-demanded complete equality of Blacks and action now
-founded Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
wanted talented tenth of the black community to be given immiediate rights |
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provided a grant of the public lands to the states for support of education
-extended by Hatch Act, which provided federal funds for the est. of agricultural experiment stations in connection with land-grant colleges (whatever that means) |
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library of Congress opened across America, bringing literature into people's homes
-yellow journalism - where newspapers exagerated crazy storeis about s*x, scandal, and other human-interest stories |
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feminists formed the National American Woman Suffrage Association
- led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Ida B. Wells rallied toward better treatment of blacks and fromed National Association of Colored Women |
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| alcohol and social progress |
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concern over alcohol formed National Prohibition Party
-Women's Christian Temperance Union also rallied against alcohol
-American Society fo the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was formed to discourage mistreatment of livestock
American Red Cross was from by Clara Burton, a Civil War nurse |
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