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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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70% of them were from southern or eastern Europe.
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Steerage
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Most traveled in the poorest accommodations.
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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 partys 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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vetoed it, calling it illiberal, narrow, and un- American.
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Skyscrapers
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is a large multistory buildings.
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Elisha Otis
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developed a mechanized elevator.
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Mass transit
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extended U.S. cities outward.
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Suburbs
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residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city.
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nouveau Riche
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a french term meaning newly rich
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conspicuous consumption
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social scientist thorstein veblen labeled this 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 services centers in poor neighborhoods
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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 the first african american settlement houses
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Social Gospel
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Which 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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Laboratory school
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Yellow journalism
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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.
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Walter Camp
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played football for Yale during the late 1870's.
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James Naismith
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physical educator in Springfield Massachusetts.
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Edwin Booth
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proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860s and 1870s.
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vaudeville
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the French word for light pay was a type of variety show that featured a wide section.
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Ragtime
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proved popular with audiences.
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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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