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31 Cards in this Set
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old immigrants
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immigrants who came from 1800 to 1880
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new immigrants
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people who came after 1880
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steerage
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below deck on a ships lower levels
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benevolent societies
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religious and non religeous groups who helped immigrants
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denis kearney
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the leader of the new workmans party who wanted to get rid of chinese
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chinese exclusion act
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denied citizenship to people born in china
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immigrants restriction league
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wanted to impose a literacy test on all immigrants
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Grover cleveland
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the president who vetoed the immigrants restriction acts
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skyscrapers
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large buildings
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elisha otis
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he developed the elevator
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mass transit
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public transport,trains subways, trolley cars
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suburbs
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on the outskirts of towns
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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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when rich people spent money in public to show their wealth
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tenements
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poorly built apartment buildings
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settlement houses
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community service centers in poor communities
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Jane Addams
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at the forefront of settlement house movement
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Janie Porter Barrett
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founded one of the first black settlement houses
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social gospel
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apply Christianity to social problems
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CAroline bartlett
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organized people church in michigan
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compulsory education laws
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law required parents to send children to school
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john dewey
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he had a labratory university learn by doing
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yellow journalism
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cartoons that report the news
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Fredrick law olmsted
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he designed central park
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city beautiful movement
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it stressed the importance of city parks and the outdoors.
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walter camp
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played footbal for yale in the 1870's
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james naismith
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he invented basketball
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edwin booth
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he produced popular Shakespeare productions
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vaudeville
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the french word for light play
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ragtime
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popular music created by blacks
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scott joplin
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the ragtime king
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