Chapter 19: Toward an Urban Society 1877- 1900 Flashcards
Louis H. Sullivan
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.
Tenement Houses
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.
Baxter Street Dudes
Rise in crime rates of gangs
Industrial Relocation Office
Established to get immigrants relieve cities of overcrowding and opened a port of entry in Galveston, Texas (Russian Jews).
Ellis Island
Most immigrants entered American through here.
New Immigrants
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
Immigration Restriction League
Demanded to literacy test for immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
Congress passed such a law, but it was vetoed by President Cleveland.
PNA
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
Yiddish Theater
Theaters were established to preform national plays and music. The most popular of which was this.
Tammany Hall
Famous democratic party that dominated city politics
“Boss” Tweed
Fell because of an awesome guy’s political cartoons that publicized the corruption of Tammany Hall
Honest Graft
it isn’t wrong to use un-public info to make money, honest
Louis Pasteur
Discovered the germs caused infections. Made microbiology and led the way toward the development of vaccines.
William James
Laid the foundations of modern behavioral psychology which stressed the importance of the environment on human development
Mugwumps
Abolitionists that turned to end political corruption
WCTU
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.
Cincinnati Red Stockings
first professional baseball team
“Walled Garden”
Quiet place outside of the city and in the home
National American Woman Suffrage Assoc.
Formed via the help of Susan B. Anthony - worked for enfranchisement of women
Plessy v. Ferguson
decision added a devastating financial burden upon the south
Civil Rights Cases
14th Amendment barred the governments from discriminating based off of race but did nothing to prevent private stuffs from doing so
W.E.B. Du Bois
Was basically the smartest and only black guy at Harvard in the 1880s.
Demand your right to an education now.
Booker T. Washington
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.
Social Darwinism
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Clarence Darrow
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Social Gospel
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Settlement Houses
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Jane Addams
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“Case Workers”
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