Chapter 18

Question 1

1. Why were people drown to the city?

Answer 1

• offered conveniences, entertainments, culture experiences(unavailable in rural communities)
• gave women opportunity to act openly vs in smaller communities they would be seen as violate “propriety”
• city offered better and more paying jobs
• new forms of transportation (inexpensive railroads)

Question 2

2. What is assimilation and how did it work in the new cities?

Answer 2

def: Unifying nation into white culture

• Immigrant had romantic visions of the New World and retained Dream of becoming TRUE americans
• First generation immigrates worked hard to rid themselves of all vestiges of their old cultures to become throughly americanized

Question 3

3. Where did the new Immigrate come from and why did they come?

Answer 3

where?-Southern and Eastern Europe

why?-to increase capital with more job opportunites

Question 4

4. What is the “Melting Pot?” Assimilation?

Answer 4

CULTURE BLENDING

• its a metaphor for a heterogeneous society blending with a homogeneous one
• used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the US

Question 5

5. Describe the new architecture and housing found in the city

Answer 5

• tenements for workers and poor
• skyscrapers
• mansions for rich

Question 6

6. What were the main struggles you experience living in the city?

Answer 6

• Fire and disease
• urban poverty
• crime and violence
• pollution
• the machine and the boss

Question 7

7. What were machine politics and the boss?

Answer 7

• Foreign born people
• Boss wanted to win for his organization by winning loyalty
• Boss provides potential voters with occasional relief(groceries, coal,etc)

Question 8

8. Describe the element responsible for mass production

Answer 8

• demand
• more income
• wealth translated into mass consumption of consumer goods
• Transportation

Question 9

9. What is consumer society?

Answer 9

-a society that consumed more goods and enjoyed more leisure time

Question 10

10. Describe popular culture by the end of the nineteeth century

Answer 10

• spectator sports
• music and theater
• movies

Question 11

11. Describe the impact of Darwinism

Answer 11

Darwinism-

o More and more people accepted and chained ideas of Darwinism due to the new cosmopolitan culture of the city

Question 12

11. Describe the impact of science

Answer 12

Science-
o By applying scientific method to the solution of social and political problems it became more apparent that the growth of edu was important

Question 13

11. Describe the impact of Pragmatism

Answer 13

Pragmatism-
o A doctrine; modern society should rely for guidance not on inherited ideals and moral principles but on the test of scientific inquiry