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31 Cards in this Set

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