Chapter 19: Toward an Urban Society 1877- 1900

Question 1

Louis H. Sullivan

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led the movement of innovation.
Wanted to rebuild Chicago after the great fire of 1871.
Sullivan worked on the Chicago Auditorium in 1886, but was later inspired to build the skyscrapers that conquer the skyline.
Build based on the function of the building.

Question 2

Tenement Houses

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Filled central city - crowded people into small apartments.
Made in James E. Wares’ famed “dumbbell system” - fit 4-16 familie on a floor and had an indent in the middle for ventilation.
Indent also created infamous fire traps.

Question 3

Baxter Street Dudes

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Rise in crime rates of gangs

Question 4

Industrial Relocation Office

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Established to get immigrants relieve cities of overcrowding and opened a port of entry in Galveston, Texas (Russian Jews).

Question 5

Ellis Island

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Most immigrants entered American through here.

Question 6

New Immigrants

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Those that showed up 1880-1910 from Russia, Poland, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Greece - tended to also to be catholic/jewish and unskilled in the labor department

Question 7

Immigration Restriction League

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Demanded to literacy test for immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
Congress passed such a law, but it was vetoed by President Cleveland.

Question 8

PNA

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Polish National Alliance:

• Helped new immigrants
• Offered insurance plans
• Established libraries and museums
• Sponsored youth programs
• Fielded baseball teams
• Organized trips back to Poland
• Made a calendar with all the Polish holidays, info, and proverbs
• Made monuments of famous Americans of Polish descent

Question 9

Yiddish Theater

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Theaters were established to preform national plays and music. The most popular of which was this.

Question 10

Tammany Hall

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Famous democratic party that dominated city politics

Question 11

“Boss” Tweed

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Fell because of an awesome guy’s political cartoons that publicized the corruption of Tammany Hall

Question 12

Honest Graft

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it isn’t wrong to use un-public info to make money, honest

Question 13

Louis Pasteur

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Discovered the germs caused infections. Made microbiology and led the way toward the development of vaccines.

Question 14

William James

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Laid the foundations of modern behavioral psychology which stressed the importance of the environment on human development

Question 15

Mugwumps

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Abolitionists that turned to end political corruption

Question 16

WCTU

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Women’s Christian Temperance Union:
Women’s movement that worked to promote temperance because alcohol was the leading cause of social evils, like domestic abuse.

Question 17

Cincinnati Red Stockings

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first professional baseball team

Question 18

“Walled Garden”

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Quiet place outside of the city and in the home

Question 19

National American Woman Suffrage Assoc.

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Formed via the help of Susan B. Anthony - worked for enfranchisement of women

Question 20

Plessy v. Ferguson

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decision added a devastating financial burden upon the south

Question 21

Civil Rights Cases

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14th Amendment barred the governments from discriminating based off of race but did nothing to prevent private stuffs from doing so

Question 22

W.E.B. Du Bois

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Was basically the smartest and only black guy at Harvard in the 1880s.
Demand your right to an education now.

Question 23

Booker T. Washington

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ex-slave
Made Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was one only 4 run down buildings and 30 students, into a model industrial and agricultural school.
- Stressed patience and hard work
- Pushed his students, in what became the Atlanta Compromise, to begin at the bottom of life and work their way up. This would make patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unrestful people.

Question 24

Social Darwinism

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Question 25

Clarence Darrow

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Question 26

Social Gospel

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Question 27

Settlement Houses

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Question 28

Jane Addams

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Question 29

“Case Workers”

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