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31 Cards in this Set
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Old Immigrants
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Immigrants who came to the United States before the 1880's; mostly Protestants from Northwestern Europe
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New Immigrants
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Immigrants who came to the United States between the 1880's and 1910's, mostly from southern and eastern Europe
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Steerage
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Poor accommodations in a ship's lower levels; many immigrants to the United States traveled in this space
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Benevolent Societies
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Organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death
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Dennis Kearney
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An Irish immigrant who was the leader of the Workingmen's Party and addressed crowds all over California giving vicious speeches against the Chinese
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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(1882) Law that denied U.S. citizenship to people born in China and prohibited Chinese immigration of laborers.
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Immigration Restriction League
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Organization formed in 1894 that sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants of the United States
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Grover Cleveland
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The President in 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897 who vetoed the IRL and served twice as president.
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Skyscrapers
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Large, multistory buildings
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Elisha Otis
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A man who 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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Nouveau Rich
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"Newly Rich"; new class of American city-dwellers that arose in the late 1800's; most made their fortunes from businesses of the Second Industrial Revolution
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Conspicuous Consumption
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Term coined by social scientist Thorstein Veblen to describe spending money just to display one's wealth
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Tenements
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Poorly built apartment buildings that housed many poor city-dwellers in the late 1800's and early 1900's
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Settlement Houses
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Community service centers that were founded in the late 1800's to offer educational opportunities, skills training, and cultural events to poor neighborhoods
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Jane Addams
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A woman who was the forefront of the American settlement-house movement and she dedicated her life to helping the urban poor and founded settlement houses
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Janie Porter Barrett
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A woman who aided the poor and founded one of the first African American settlement houses
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Social Gospel
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Movement by Protestant ministers in the late 1800's that applied Christian principles to social problems
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Caroline Bartlett
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A woman who organized People's Church in Kalamazoo according to the Social Gospel and became a Unitarian minister in 1889
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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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A philosopher who was a main reformer who emphasized art, history, and science, and had a "Laboratory School" at the University of Chicago
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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A landscape architect who designed Central Park in New York City and sought to create a rural setting ---
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City Beautiful Movement
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Movement that stressed the importance of including public parks and attractive boulevards in the designs of cities
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Walter Camp
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A man who played football for Yale during the late 1870's and made considerable contributions to the structure of the sport, establishing many of its rules and principles
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James Naismith
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A physical educator in Springfield, Massachusetts invented the game of basketball in 1891. He was attempting to find a sport that could entertain a group of unruly students during the long, cold months of winter
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Edwin Booth
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A man who portrayed William Shakespeare's tragic heroes and proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860's and 1870's. He was considered one of the premier actors of his day
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Vaudville
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"Light play"; type of variety show that featured a wide selection of short performances
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Ragtime
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Style of music created by African American pianists in the 1890's who played a driving rhythm with one hand and an improvised melody with the other
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Scott Joplin
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A man known as the King of Ragtime, this man was musically gifted since he was born and revolutionized the ragtime era
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Mass Transit
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Public transportation systems, such as commuter trains and subways, that make it possible for workers to live farther away from their jobs
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Yellow Journalism
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Style of sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers
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