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31 Cards in this Set
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Old immigrants
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Protestants from Northwestern Europe.
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New immigrants
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From southern or eastern Europe.
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Steerage
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The poorest accommodations that were below deck on the ship's lower levels near the steering mechanisms.
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Benevolent societies
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Religious and nonreligious aid organizations to help immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death.
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Denis Kearney
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The new Workingmen's Party leader, who was an Irish immigrant.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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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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Imposed a literary test on all immigrants.
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Grover Cleveland
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President who vetoed the IRL, calling it "illiberal, narrow, and un-American."
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Skyscrapers
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Large, multistory buildings.
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Elisha Otis
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Developed the mechanical elevator, which allowed people and materials to be transported more easily.
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Mass transit
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Included forms of public transportation such as electric commuter trains, subways, and trolley cars.
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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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French for "Newly rich."
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Conspicuous consumption
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When the nouveau riche spent their great wealth freely so that everyone new how successful they were.
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Tenements
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Poorly built apartment buildings.
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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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Compulsory Education laws
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Laws requiring parents to send their children to school.
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John Dewey
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Philosopher who was a reformer of education.
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Yellow journalism
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Reporting in newspapers/magazines with cartoons.
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Settlement houses
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Community service centers
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Jane Addams
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Dedicated her life to helping the urban poor, establishing a settlement house.
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Janie Porter Barrett
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Founded one of the first African American settlement houses (The Locust Street Social Settlement) in Hampton, Virginia.
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Caroline Bartlett
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Organized People's church in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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Designed central park in New York City.
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City Beautiful movement
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Stressed the importance of public parks and attractive boulevards in the design of cities.
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Walter Camp
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Played football for Yale in the 1870's, and made contributions to the structure of the sport.
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James Naismith
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Physical educator in Springfield, MA, invented the game of basketball in 1891.
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Edwin Booth
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Proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860's and 70's.
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Vaudeville
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The french word for "light play," it was a type of variety show that featured a wide selection of short performances.
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Ragtime
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New form of music created by African-Americans in the 1890's.
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Scott Joplin
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The King of Ragtime, he was a jazz musician who wrote the "Maple Leaf Rag."
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