Chapter 25 Flashcards
cities forming worldwide
skyscrapers
As becoming commuters
subways, electric trolleys
segregated by race, ethnicity, and social class
appeal of cities’ aesthetic
electricity, indoor plubming, telephone
deparmment stores
waste
slums and tenements
waste in cities
no composte
criminals flourished
impure water, uncollected trash, unwashed hoodies, animal droppings
stench
dumbell tenemnets
revised tenement with two narrow air wells at each side.
new immigration
until 1880s most immingrants come from W Europe
now thy came frim S + E Europe
-italians, jews, croats, slovaks, greeks, poles
came from countries w/out democratic gov
created ethnic enclaves
left bc of land, jobs, letter, no military conscription, religios persectuiosn
30 mil to US
low wage labor
many returned home after eearning $
children learned english and tried to fit in
taking care of the immigrats
gov was not prepared to deal with immigrants
care fell to political machines
traded jobs for votes
foundn housing, clothing, helped schools. parks, and hopsitals in immigrant neighborhiods
clerfymen adovicated for chrches to help with refor,
settlement houses
Hull House
hull house
jane adams built the first settlement house
settlement houses
houses for immigrants
offered instruction in english, city-living, cultural activitis and child care
beca,e cemeters of womens activists
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worrieD they would be outvoted
blamed immigrants for degredation of urban gov
unionists mad at them for working for low wages
worried abt communism, socialism, and anarchism
antiforiegner organizations
restricitve lawas against paupers. criminals, and comvict
banned chinese immigration in 1885
proposed a literacy test that got turned down
American Protective Association
changes in the churches
protestant churches suffered from the shift to the city
many old chrches were slow to challenge wealthy parishoners
mounting emphasis o materialism
liberal protestants
roman catholicism and judiasm
roman catholcism became the biggest denomination
2 new: Salvation Army and Chrisitan science
liberal protestants
adapted religios ideas to modern culture, reconciling christianity w/ science and economics
regected biblical literalism and allied w/ social gospel movement
darwinism in churches
evolution and natural selection
eventually most accepted exepct a few conservatives
loosened religios moring and promoted skepticism
growth of education
more states making grade school mandatory
high school becoming popular
free textbooks
teaching trainign schools/normal schools
kinderguardens
private catholic schools
educational lectures for adult
booker t washington
s lagged behind in education
autobiography “up from slavery”
taught students useful trades
avoided “social equality” tp devolp the blak communuty
economic idepenece was the ticket
Tuskgee Institute
dr W E B dubois
thought booker was condemning their race to manul labor and inferiority
demanded complete equality
coudned the NAACP
colleges
1880: 1/3 of graudates were women
blakc collegs
growth owed to hatch act and morrill act bc of public grants for state schools
private philatnhopu also helped gov grants
increase in professional/techincal schools
focused on facts rather than values
specialization
pragmatism
coed colleges