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31 Cards in this Set

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old immigrants
most of them were protestants from northwestern europe.
new immigrants
were from southern or eastern europe.
steerages
most traveled in the poorest accommodations
benevolent societies
to help immigrants in cases of sickeness, unemployment, and death
denis kearney
the party's leader, was himself and irish immigrant.
chinese exclusion act
which denied citizenship to people born in china and prodibited the immigration of chineese laborers.
immigration restriction league
sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants.
grover cleveland
vetoed it calling it "illiberal. narrow and unamerican ove thte next several years congress tried several times immigration continued.
skyscrapers
large, multistory buildings
elisha otis
developed a mechanized elecator
mass transit
extended u.s. cities outward.
suburbs
residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city.
conspicuous consumtion
social scientist thorstein veblen labeled this behavior.
nouveau riche
a french term maning "newly rich."
tenements
poorly built apartment buildings
settlement houses
community service centers inters in poor neighborhoods.
jane addams
was at the forefront of the american settlement-house offered neighborhood residents educational opportunities
janie porter barrett
foounded one of the first african american settlement house
social gospel
which called for people to apply chrisitan principles to address social problems.
caroline barrtlett
organized people's church in kalamazoo, michigan, according to the social gospel.
john dewey
chicago philosopher
compulsory education laws
laws requiring parents to send children to school.
yellow journalism
cartoon inspired many critics to refer to the world's an the journal's style
frederick law olmsted
designed central park in new york city.
city beautiful movement
the movement adopted a number of ideas from a british planning movement.
walter camp
played football for yale during the late 1870s.
james naismith
a physical educator in spingfield, massachusetts, invented the game of basketball in 1891
edwin booth
proved to be on eof the most popular attractions of the 1860s
vaudeville
the french word for "lightly play"
show of short performances
ragtime
a new form of music proved poplar with audiences. created by african american
scott joplin
born nto a family of musicians form east texas in 1868. king of ragtime.