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28 Cards in this Set
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Old immigrants
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Protestant from northwest Europe
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New immigrants
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Most were catholic and were from southern or eastern Europe
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Benevolent societies
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Helped immigrants incase of illness unemployment or death
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Denis Kearney
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Leader of The Workingmen's Party of California he was an Irish immigrant
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Chinese exclusion act
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Passed by congress in 1882 it denied citizenship to people born in china and prohibited the immigration of chinese laborers
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Immigration Restriction League
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Sought to impose literary test on all immigrants
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Grover Cleavland
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Vetoed the immigration restriction league and called it unamerican
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Skyscrapers
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A large multistory building
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Elisha Otis
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Developed a mechanized elevator
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Mass transit
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Extended U.S. cities outward
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Suburbs
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Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city
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Nouveau riche
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A French term meaning newly rich
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Conspicuous consumption
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Thorstein Veblen called people that showed there wealth but spending it freely this
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Tenements
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Poorly built apartment buildings
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Settlement houses
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Offered neighborhood residents educational opportunities,skills training, and cultural events
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Jane Adams
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Was at the forefront of American settlement house movements
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Janie porter Barrett
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Founded one of the first African American settlement house
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Social gospel
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Called for people to apply Christian principles to address social problems
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Caroline bartlett
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Organized a peoples church in Kalamazoo Michigan
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Compulsory education laws
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Laws requiring childeren to go to school
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John Dewey
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One of the main reformers he had a laboratory school at the university of Chicago he emphasised art, history, and science
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Yellow journalism
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The cartoons are showing extremes and might be a little to extreme
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Fredrick law Olmsted
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Designed central park in new York city
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City beautiful movement
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Adopted ideas from british planing movements called garden city
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Walter camp
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Played football for Yale and made considerable to the structure of the sport
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Edwin booth
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Coinsidered one of the premier actors of his day
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Vaudville
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French word for light play was a variety show with a wide selection of short performances
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Ragtime
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Emerged in the 1890s
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