Apush 5 Flashcards
1880 immigrants old
north n west EU, brit, germany, scandinavia
protestants, irish/german catholics, english speaker/ literate/ skilled
new immigrants 1890s
south and east EU, ppor/illiterate peasants, not used to democracy, non protestant. in poor ethnic neighborhood in big US cities
birds of passage
younf men for unskilled fatory/mining/constructions. would return back once has enough money
1870-80
legal resriction on immigrants
- chinese exclusion act of 1882 (ban all new immigrant from china) from wetern states
- stop immigration of paupers, criminals and mentally ill
- contract labor laws 1882 restricted temporarty workers to protect US worker
- literacy test 1917
- 1892 medical examination and payment of tax by immigrant
- statue of libery 1886 barthodi french
support for restriction of immigrants
- labor union
- nativist society: American Protective Association (prejudice against catholic
- social darwinist
foreigner scapegoats for depression
AA
moved from farm to n n w cities
streetcar cities
ppl lived far away from jos, horse drawn cars and cable. steel suspension bridges helped new york brooklyn bridge. different class/race lived in diff areas
skyscrapers
Will Jenny built home insurance compnay building chicago 10, steel skeleton, made possible by innovations
poor
affluent out of resid near business district n poor lived their. landlords: small windowless room to fill it up with more ppl. bad condition: NYC law required window-dumbbell tenements, ventilation shafts. spread diseases, filth, overcrowding. immig groups created disntinct bad neighborhood with its own thing: ghettos
residential suburbs
wealthy, facotrs prompting them to move
- low cost land
- inexpensive tranportation
- low cost contriction
- prejudice
- individ n privay
city beautiful 1890
movement to make US cities better
political machine
group of politian controlling polit parties in cities. boss: gave jobs to loyal supporters. coordinate issues. greedy n generous, help poor
reform 80-90
urban problems.
book of social critizism: george n bellamy, bad side affect of laissezfair, ineuality of wealth by indus
young mid-class live in immigrant nieghborh to learn about prob called settlement houses. Hull House-Addams. tuaght eniglish and helped out. created foundation for social worker and are prochildlaborlaws, women rights, housing reform
Theodore Roosevelt tried to clean up NYPD
most reform did not work
laissezfair
gov absense
social gospel 80-90
movement, social justice for poor urban. apply christian principle to social prob. Rauschenbusch minister, protestant
religion
adapt to city life
catholic grew bc immicgrants.
eddy: good health result of correct thinking about fathermothergod, chruch of crist, scientist
urban life
isolation from extended family, divorce rate increased, fmaily sized!