Chapter 20 Flashcards

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Much of westward movement was in fact towards the

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Cities, such as San Fran

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The flow of population was mainly toward the

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Cities

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The city dwellers in the NE were

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Landless and homeless: could only offer labor

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What allowed city building to expand vertically to accommodate surging population

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Developments in heating, as fireplaces were no longer needed, Otis Elevator company, cast iron and steel frame construction

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Cities expanded horizontally after what innovations in transportation?

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Cable cars that clamped onto a moving underground cable driven by a central power source, steam powered trains, electric trolleys, subways

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The spread of mass transit allowed the creation of

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People becoming commuters, and suburbs

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Many of the rich went out of the city went out of the city while the poor, stayed

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In the city, allowing for congestion and crime

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In times of rural depression people would often go to

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The cities

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Unregulated urban growth created problems with

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Sanitation, health, and morale

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What were tentements?

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6-8 story buildings that held multiple housing units where families were crammed together. Disease was a problem

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The cities were overflowed with

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Contaminated water, horse urine, and manure, roaming pigs, and untreated sewage

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What water related diseases came!

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Cholera, typhoid fever, and yellow fever

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Sanitary reformers, public health officials and municipal engineers, persuaded

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City governments to banish hogs and cattle within the city limit, mount cleanup campaigns, build water and sewage systems, trash collect, and replace horses with street cars

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What did this reforms also cause

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Waste dumped into water,

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What was a common thought at the time?

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Flush and forget about it. Believed water purified itself so they dumped it into massive waters and bays

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Ethnic neighborhoods in cities preserved

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Familiar folkways and shielded newcomers from the shocks of a strange culture

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Why did immigrants come to America?

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Some were persecuted, lack of opportunity and pulled by America’s promise

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American companies, seeking cheap labor

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Often advertised propoganda

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Under the Contract Labor Act of 1864?

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The federal government helped pay an immigrant’s passage

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In 1885, the government forbad companies

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To import contract labor, putting immigrants under the control of their employers

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Most immigrants arriving in America passed through

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Ellis Island

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Since most immigrants knew little English and knew nothing about American employment practices, they were

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Easy subjects for exploitation

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Whenever the new immigrants came in, older residents

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Typically moved out, taking with them whatever social prestige and political influence they had achieved

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Why did nativists believe that immigrants were threatening American culture?

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They were illiterate, could not speak English, some restored to crime,

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The did the Chinese face great discrimination?

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Because they were not white, not Christian, and not literate

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Other reasons the Chinese were discriminated?

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Often accepted lower wages, and their habits of thrift, self denial, and industry

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What was the Chinese Exclusion Act

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Banned Chinese immigration for ten years. Gained much support

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Henry Cabot Lodge did what?

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Took up the cause of excluding illiterate foreigners. Organized the Immigration Restriction League

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Those arrivals from China who could claim chinese American parent

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Were allowed to enter, along with certain officials, teachers, merchants, and students

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Traditionally, people in rural areas were

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Tied to the rituals of harvest season and intimately connected with their neighbors and extended families

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Many middle class urban whites had more money to be mobile as they

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Were primarily associated to other memebers of their nuclear family

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In the half century after the Civil War,

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Newspapers were the primary means of education

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Most of the newspapers were openly

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Partisan, associating with one of the major national political parties

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The most popular destination for the urban working class were

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Saloons and dance halls. More saloons than grocery stores

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Saloons were financed by

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German American owned breweries

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Saloons were in effect

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Public homes, offering haven and fellowship who worked 10 hours a day six days of the week

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Saloons were especially proper among

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Male immigrants seeking companionship

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Saloons were definitely

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Male enclaves. Women and children entered through a side door

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Women Christian’s Temperance union and Anti Saloon League charges the saloons with

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Alcoholism, divorce, crime, and absenteeism

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A movement to create urban parks rose after the creation of

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Central Park

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Fredrick Law Olmsted created parks

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And they were for exercise,recreation and escape from city

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Bicycles Were popular with women

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Who chafed at restricting conventions of the Victorian era. Offered exercise, freedom, and access to countryside

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Married women had little free time because

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They had house work and maternal responsibilites

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Washing clothes, supervising children, or shopping at the local market provided

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Opportunities for fellowship with other women

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Single women had more time for leisure. They would

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Cinema, dance halls, theaters, beaches,metc

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Young single women participated in urban amusements because

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Of escape,pleasure, adventure, companionship, and autonomy

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Basketball was created for a sport

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Between the fall and spring seasons

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Recent immigrants were faithful fans to

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Baseball

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What increased enormously at the end of the 19th century

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Prestiges and premises of modern science

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Every field of though was impaced by

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The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin. Used extensive observations and cast iron logic to argue that most organisms produce many more offspring that can survive

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What did Darwin advocate?

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Natural selection

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Darwin’s findings suggested that there was no

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Provisional God directing the cosmos. Evolved through trial and error

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Most of the faithful viewed evolution as the

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Divine will, one of the secondary causes in which God worked

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Herbert Spencer argued that

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Human societies and institutions evolved through the same process of natural selection. Was dismissed by Darwin

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Social Darwinism implied a

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Hands off government policy

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Lester Frank Ward argued that

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Humanity can control the process of evolution. Corporation not competition will better promote progress

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Government could be the agency of progress by supporting two main goals

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Ameliorating poverty and promoting the education of the masses