front 1 American Protection Association (APA) | back 1 Disliked Christians Anti-Catholic society |
front 2 Social Gospel | back 2 Church movement to improve conditions affecting society |
front 3 Booker T Washington | back 3 Former slave Believed that blacks should be educated in trades to achieve economic security |
front 4 W.E.B DuBois | back 4 First African-American to get PhD from Harvard Wanted immediate political, social, and economic equality for blacks |
front 5 Morrill Act of 1862 | back 5 Granted public land to states for support of education |
front 6 Yellow Journalism | back 6 Exaggerating/making up stories to sell newspapers William Hearst & Joseph Pulitzer |
front 7 Hull House | back 7 Created by Jane Addams Settlement House (mostly women and children, but also some immigrants) Worked for goals like anti-sweatshop laws to protect women and child laborers Demonstrated that the cities offered new challenges and opportunities for women |
front 8 Old Immigration/Immigrants | back 8 1820-1880 mostly immigrants from Western and Northern Europe Assimilated easily into American society : - Typically Protestant - Many looked like native-born Americans -Spoke the same language - Usually literate & skilled - Immigrated in/with entire families - Usually democratic |
front 9 New Immigration/Immigrants | back 9 1880-1920 mostly immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe Had trouble assimilating into American society : - Spoke different languages - Many were Roman Catholic or Jewish - Did not look like native-born Americans (easy to pick out) - Mostly single men immigrated - Usually did not practice democracy (seen as a threat) - Typically settled in/with their own ethnic groups - They were the new culture going into the established culture - Were associated with urban problems |
front 10 Immigration act of 1924 | back 10 Limited the number of immigrants allowed into the US based on a national origin quota |
front 11 Dumbell tenements | back 11 High-rise urban buildings that provided barracks-like housing for urban slum dwellers |
front 12 Birds of Passage | back 12 Immigrants who came to America to earn money for a (short period) of time and then returned to their native country/land |
front 13 Social Worker | back 13 Profession established by Jane Addams and others that opened new opportunities for women while engaging urban problems |
front 14 American Protestant Association | back 14 Nativist organization that attacked new immigrants and Roman Catholicism in the 1800s and 1890s |
front 15 Tuskegee Institute | back 15 Black educational institute founded by Booker T Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts |
front 16 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | back 16 Organization founded by WEB DuBois and others to advance black social and economic equality |
front 17 Progress & Poverty | back 17 Henry George's best-selling book that advocated social reform through the imposition of a "single tax" on land |
front 18 Comstock Law | back 18 Federal law promoted by a self-appointed morality crusader and used to prosecute moral and sexual dissidents |
front 19 Women and Economics | back 19 Charlotte Perkins Gilman's book urging women to enter the workforce and advocating cooperative kitchens and child-care centers |
front 20 National American Women's Suffrage Association | back 20 Organization founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to promote the vote for women |
front 21 Women's Christian Temperance Union | back 21 Women's organization founded by reformer Frances Willard and others to oppose alcohol consumption |
front 22 Louis Sullivan | back 22 Architect connected to invention of high-rise buildings (skyscrapers) in the city |
front 23 Walter Rauschenbusch | back 23 Leading Protestant advocate of the "social gospel" who tried to make Christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems |
front 24 Mary Baker Eddy | back 24 Author and founder of a popular new religion based on principles of spiritual healing |
front 25 How did the urban population change in the late 19th century? What impact do you think this will have on traditional institutions? | back 25 Urban population grew immensely American institutions will also grow and adapt (more diverse) |
front 26 Jacob Riis | back 26 Takes pictures of terrible living conditions in the city Published a book: “How the other Half Lives" (Book of photographs of immigrant populations in NYC and the living conditions that they are subjected to) |
front 27 Downsides of City Life | back 27 - Facilities can't keep up (sanitation, jails, hospitals, housing) - More Criminals - Impure water, uncollected garbage, unwashed bodies, droppings from draft animals |
front 28 Consumerism in the city | back 28 The beginnings of department stores This is very desirable to many people (especially middle class) Also opens up jobs for women - they need workers in the department stores |
front 29 Commuting in the city | back 29 -Electric cars and trollies - People who didn't live in the city were able to commute there |