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  1. Push factors
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What makes a person want to leave a place

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  1. Urbanization
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The migration of a person from rural areas to the city

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  1. Pull factors
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What makes someone want to come to a place

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  1. Immigrants ghettos
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Placed where immigrants would live after they had come to America

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  1. Assimilation
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The process of integrating through giving up ones old culture for a new one

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  1. Nativism
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The ideas that the only people who should be allowed in the country are white people from the mayflower

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  1. Immigration restrictions league
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Used tests to try and help stop and limit the flow of immigrants

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  1. Central Park
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Created to help make cities look nicer and allowed and escape

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  1. City beautiful movement
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The attempt to make cities nicer to live in

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  1. Back bay
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Landfill neighborhood in Boston

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  1. Suburbs
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Communities located on the out skirts of cities

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  1. Tenements
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Places where immigrants would live that often didn’t have windows

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  1. Jacob Riis
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Took pictures of people in tenements to help show how bad their living conditions were

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  1. Mass transit
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Help make commuting easier and cheaper

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  1. Skyscraper
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Buildings made possible due to the mass production of steel

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  1. Pollution
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Made due to coal burning in factories

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  1. Public health service
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charged with preventing occupational diseases
attempted to create common health standards for all factories
limited impact
established protection of public health as federal responsibility

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  1. Boss rule
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Immigrant politicians started to be able to have power over basic jobs

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  1. Tammany Hall
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political machine
George Washington Plunkitt
William M. Tweed

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  1. Boss Tweed
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an American politician most notable for being the “boss” of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State

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  1. Mass merchandising
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The high demand of products created a high need for production of goods

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  1. A & P
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is a supermarket and liquor store chain in the United States

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  1. Woolworth
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A chain of dried food chain stores

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  1. Chain stores
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Stores by the same name and owned by the same company that poped up everywhere

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  1. Mail order catalog
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Allowed buyers to choose from a wide array of goods and get them in a few month s

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  1. Montgomery Ward
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historically distinct American retail enterprises. It can refer either to the defunct mail order and department store retailer, which operated between 1872 and 2000

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  1. Sears Roubuck
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Created by Sears that sold a variation of goods and put out mail order catalogues

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  1. Department Stores
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Were designed to show that shopping could be a whole day affair

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  1. National Consumer Leagues
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1891, is an American consumer organization. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues

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  1. Coney Island
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An amusement park that helped people escape

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  1. Major leagues baseball
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Considered the nations sport and gained popularity after the civil war

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  1. NCAA
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National Collegiate athletics Association

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  1. Basketball
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Another sport that invoked a ball and was played in colleges

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  1. George M Cohen
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American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and produce

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  1. Irving Berlin
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An American composer and lyricist

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  1. Vaudville
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A show that combined various types of acts

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  1. Birth of a Nation
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One of the first silent films

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  1. Nickelodeon
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A jukebox that required a coin to play music

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  1. Dime Novels
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We’re used as a source of entertainment inside homes

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  1. Scott Joplin
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Wrote and played ragtime music

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  1. William Randolph Hearst
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The owner of a newspaper company

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  1. Joseph Pulitzer
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Owner of the New York Sun a Newspaper company

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  1. Ladies home journal
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An American magazine published for women

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  1. Mark Twain
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Wrote books about young boys who lived in the south

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  1. Uptown Sinclair
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A black author/writer who wrote about the jungle oil

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  1. Ashcan school of Art
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An art school that encouraged realism

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  1. Stephen Crane
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Wrote the red badge of courage which is a famous American novel

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  1. Charles Darwin
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Had the idea that the fittest organism would live on

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  1. Land Grant Universtiy
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education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.

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  1. Women’s colleges
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Helped to educated women some were separated colleges while others we separate buildings

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