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29 Cards in this Set
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Old immigrants
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Protestants from northwestern Europe, immigrated to the united states
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New immigrants
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About 60 percent of the people in 1900s, had immigrated to the us.
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Steerage
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Poorest accommodations on a ship on the lower levels near the steering mechanisms
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Benevolent societies
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Religious and no religious aid organizations
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Denis Kearney
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The leader of the workingmans party of California.
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Chinese exclusion act
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Denied Citizenship to people born in china
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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 that vetoed the immigration restriction league
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Skyscrapers
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Large multistory buildings.
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Elisha Otis
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Developed the mechanized elevators
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Mass transit
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Extended us 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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Spending their money freely so people knew how successful they were
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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 Adams
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Was At the forefront of American settlement house movement
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Janie porter Barrett
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Founded the first African a,Erica's 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 the people's church in Kalamazoo Michigan.
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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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Mane reformers for education
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Yellow journalism
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Using sensational and sometimes false stories or cartoons to draw in readers.
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Fredrick law olmstead
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Designed central park.
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City beautiful movement
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American panning movement
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Walter camp
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Played football for Yale during the late 1870s
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Edwin booth
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Proved to be one or the most popular attractions of the 1860s
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Vaudeville
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French word for light play.
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James Naismith
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Physical educator in Springfield Massachusetts.
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