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Chapter 21
A New Urban Culture
Section 1 – New Immigrants in a Promised Land
Pages 600-605
Why Immigrants Came
What is a push factor? ___________________________________________________________
List 3 push factors.
What is a pull factor? ____________________________________________________________
List 3 pull factors.
A Difficult Journey
Describe the immigrant’s journey to the United States.
On the East Coast
Where did most European immigrants’ journey end? ___________________________________
What did the doctors look for when immigrants climbed the stairs? _______________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
What happened if a doctor decided you were sick?
_____________________________________ or ______________________________________
Why did some immigrants end up with a different name upon arrival? _____________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Why do you think an immigrant would not complain about the name change? _______________
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On the West Coast
Where were Asian immigrants processed in California? _________________________________
How was the experience different from Ellis Island? ___________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Adapting to American Life
How did immigrants find jobs? ____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Immigrant Neighborhoods
What did immigrants have in common in their neighborhoods? ___________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Learning to be American
What is acculturation? ___________________________________________________________
What group adapted most quickly to the new culture? __________________________________
What did they do to fit in? ________________________________________________________
Nativists Oppose Immigration
What are nativists? ______________________________________________________________
Give three reasons nativists did not want immigrants coming to the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion
How did Congress respond to the anti-Chinese feeling? _________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
What did the law say? ___________________________________________________________
Restricting immigration
What group did nativists form? ____________________________________________________
What did they want? ____________________________________________________________
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Chapter 21
A New Urban Culture
Section 2 – New Immigrants in a Promised Land
Pages 606-611
Setting the Scene
What city had a huge fire in 1871? _________________________________________________
Give specific details:
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Urban Populations Boom
What is urbanization? ___________________________________________________________
Why did people move to cities? ____________________________________________________
Give examples of city jobs.
1.
3.
5.
7.
2.
4.
6.
8.
Immigrants and In-migrants
Why did people leave farms to more to cities? ________________________________________
African Americans Move to Cities
Where did African Americans move from? ___________________________________________
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Give 2 reasons why they moved:
1.
2.
What are 4 northern cities that drew many African Americans?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Patterns of City Settlement
Typical city:
Label the group on the circle
and the living conditions
in that part of the city.
What is a tenement? _____________________________________________________________
Name 3 diseases that killed many in the slums.
1.
2.
3.
Get a dictionary – look up one of the diseases and briefly explain it. _______________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Urban Poor
Urban Middle Class
describe area
buildings
type of jobs
safety
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Rich
Look at pictures at the bottom on page 608. The poor family is on the left and the wealthier on the right.
Explain 3 differences between these 2 families.
1.
2.
3.
Solving City Problems
Name 4 specific problems of cities.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Urban Reforms
What are building codes? _________________________________________________________
What did they require? ___________________________________________________________
How did cities try to reduce pollution in air? _________________________________________
How did cites try to reduce pollution on street? _______________________________________
How did cities try to improve safety? _______________________________________________
How did cities try to improve water systems? _________________________________________
Religious Organizations Help the Poor
What are 3 ways religious organizations tried to help the poor?
1.
2.
3.
The Settlement House Movement
What is a settlement house? _______________________________________________________
Where did Jane Addams first see a settlement house? __________________________________
Where was Hull House? __________________________________________________________
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Name some of the ways that Hull House helped immigrants.
1.
2.
3.
Pressing for Reform
What are 3 types of reform laws that women working in settlement houses wanted?
1.
2.
3.
Comparing Maps, page 611
The maps show parts of what 2 states? ______________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Explain why the settled areas grew where they did. ____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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Chapter 21
A New Urban Culture
Section 3 – Life in Changing Cities
Pages 612-616
Setting the Scene
What were some of the modern conveniences in the new apartment hotels? _________________
______________________________________________________________________________
A Building Boom
What caused the need for some cities to begin building up? ______________________________
What is a skyscraper? ____________________________________________________________
What are 3 things that crowded streets?
1.
2.
3.
What was one solution to traffic problems? __________________________________________
Name 3 advantages of this type of transportation.
1.
2.
3.
Cities offered ways to spend their leisure time:
At___________________________________ people could _____________________________
At___________________________________ people could _____________________________
Americans at Play
Sports
Football
Baseball
Basketball
A New World of Theater and Music
How did music bring Americans together? ___________________________________________
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How did railroads effect entertainment? _____________________________________________
Variety Shows
The wealthy went to __________________________ and _______________________________
Others went to _________________________________________________________________
Give 3 examples of vaudeville acts:
1.
2.
3.
Popular Music
What invention helped spread music? _______________________________________________
What was a new kind of music? ___________________________________________________
Who is the “King of Ragtime”? ____________________________________________________
Early Days of Baseball, page 616
How did technology help spread baseball? ___________________________________________
What 8 cities had National League Baseball teams?
1.
3.
5.
7.
2.
4.
6.
8.
Who is Cy Young? ______________________________________________________________
Chapter 21
A New Urban Culture
Section 4 – Public Education and American Culture
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Pages 617-621
Setting the Scene
Where in the U.S. was the first kindergarten? _________________________________________
What did they teach children there?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Educating Americans
Describe schooling before 1870. ___________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Public Schools
What is compulsory education? ____________________________________________________
The School Day
Describe 3 ways this schooling is different than now:
1900
subjects
school day
punishments
2000
Higher Learning
After leaving public schools in the 6th grade, what types of education were available in the U.S.?
______________________________________________________________________________
A Newspaper Boom
How did education effect newspapers? ______________________________________________
How did the growth of cities effect newspapers? ______________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
How did newspapers help immigrants? ______________________________________________
Two Newspaper Giants
Newspaper:
Owner:
Newspaper:
Owner:
What is yellow journalism? _______________________________________________________
How did yellow journalism help sell newspapers? _____________________________________
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To get more female readers, what did newspapers do? __________________________________
New Reading Habits and New American Writers
Name the 3 important magazines.
1.
2.
3.
Name 1 important realist author and his book. ________________________________________
Give 5 facts about Mark Twain.
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
Painting Everyday Life
Painter
W. Homer
known for
T. Eakins
H. Tanner
J. Whistler
M. Cassatt
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