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23 Cards in this Set
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Old immigrants
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10 million immigrants from 1800 to 1880 came to America
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New immigrants
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70 percent were from southern or Eastern Europe
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Benevolent societies
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Residents in many cities formed religious and nonreligious aid organizations
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Denis Kearney
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An Irish immigrant
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Passed by congress in 1882 which 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 a literacy test on all immigrants
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Grover Cleveland
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Vetoed the measure calling it "illiberal, narro, and unamerican
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Skyscrapers
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Large, multistory buildings
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Elisha Otis
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Developed a mechanized elevator in 1852
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Mass transit
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While skyscrapers extended cities upward, mass transit extended the U.S. cities outwards
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Suburbs
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Expansion of transportation to areas beyond the urban center led to the growth of this
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Nouveau riche
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French term meaning "newly rich"
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Conspicuous consumption
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Spending your wealth freely so that everyone can would know how successful they were
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Tenements
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Poorly built apartments
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Settlement houses
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Community service centers in poor neighborhoods
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Jane Addams
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The forefront of the American settlement-house movement
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Janie Porter Barrett
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Founded one of the first African American settlement houses
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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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Jane Addams
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The forefront of the American settlement-house movement
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Caroline Bartlett
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Organized People's Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Janie Porter Barrett
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Founded one of the first African American settlement houses
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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 People's Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan
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