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31 Cards in this Set
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Old immigrants
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The first wave of immigrants from 1800 to 1880
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New immigrants
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Second wave of immigrants from 1891 to 1910
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Steerage
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The poorest accommodations on the ship
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Benevolent societies
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Religious and non- religious aid organizations
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Denis Kearney
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Leader of the working man's party
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Chinese exclusion act
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Denied citizenship for people born in china and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
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Immigration restriction league
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Group of wealthy Bostonians calling for a literacy test for all immigrants
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Grover Cleveland
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President during the industrial revolution
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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 elevator
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Mass transit
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Public transportation such as subways, commuter trains, and trolley cars
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Suburbs
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Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city
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Nouveau riche
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New class of wealthy city dwellers
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Conspicuous consumption
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Behavior in which wealthy people spend so people know they're rich
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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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Organizer of settlement houses
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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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Idea which called for people to apply Christian principles to social problems
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Caroline Bartlett
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Organized a people's church in calamazoo
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Compulsory education laws
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Required parents to send their children to school
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John Dewey
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One of the main education reformers
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Yellow journalism
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What critics referred to the journal's style of journalism
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Fredrick law Olmsted
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Designer of Central Park
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City beautiful movement
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Movement that stressed the inclusion of public parks and attractive boulevards in the design of cities
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Walter camp
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Played football for Yale, made important contributions to the formation of the sport
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James Naismith
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Physical educator who invented basketball
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Edwin booth
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Actor who played in Shakespeare plays
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Vaudeville
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A variety show that featured a variety of short performances
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Ragtime
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Style of African American music preformed in vaudeville acts
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Scott Joplin
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Known as the king of ragtime
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