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31 Cards in this Set
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Old Immigrants
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Most of them were 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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Accomodations were below deck on the ships lower levels near the steering mechanisms.
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Benevolent societies
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To help immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death.
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Denis Kearney
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the parties leader, was himself an irish immigrant.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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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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President at the time
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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, which allowed people and materials to be transported more easily.
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Suburbs
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Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city.
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Conspicuous Consumption
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suspicious behavior
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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
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Jane Addams
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Was at 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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Caroline Bartlett
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Organized people's church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, according to the social gospel.
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compulsory education laws
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laws requiring parents to send children to school.
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John Dewey
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His "laboratory school" at the university of Chicago stressed cooperative "learning by doing".
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yellow journalism
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The hugely popular cartoon inspirited many critics to refer to the Worlds and the journals style of sensational reporting
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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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the movement adopted a number of ideas from a British planning movement called Garden City
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Walter Camp
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played football for Yale during the late 1870's
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Edwin Booth
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proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860's and 1870's
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Vaudeville
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the french word for "light play"--was a type of variety show that featured a wide selection of short performances.
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Ragtime
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Created by african american musicians, ragtime emerged during the 1890's
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Scott Joplin
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Was born into a family of musicians from East Texas in 1868.
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Mass Transit
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Extended U.S. cities outward.
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Nouaveau riche
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A French term meaning "newly rich"
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James Naismith
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A physical educator in Springfield, Massachusetts, invented the game of basketball in 1891.
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