American Pageant Chapter 25
1. How did urban population growth from 1870 to 1900 compare to US population growth as a
whole?
2. How did the population of NYC compare to London and other cities in the world?
Louis Sullivan/ skyscrapers
3. How did streetcars change cities from the “walking city?”
4. Besides immigrants, who else flooded cities for industrial jobs?
Brooklyn Bridge
5. What did department stores like Macy’s and Marshall Field’s represent for rural residents like
Dreiser’s fictional Sister Carrie?
6. What new problems did cities face as a result of growing consumerism?
7. What were the causes of sanitation problems in the cities?
8. Describe the difference between: dumbbell tenements, flophouses and bedroom communities.
Reading Annual Immigration 1860-2000,
9. What conditions led immigration fall before 1900?
10. How were the “New Immigrants” different from those who came before 1880?
11. Read The Chinese (516), The Poles (726-7), The Italians ( 564-5) and complete the
New Immigrant chart.
Little Italys, Little Polands, Chinatowns
melting pot
12. What push factors led southern Europeans to leave home?
13. What pull factors attracted them to America?
14. How were Jews unique among the New Immigrants?
birds of passage
15. How did the New Immigrants retain their traditional culture?
16. Which nationalities worked in sweatshops?
17. Which generation of immigrants was more likely to “melt” or assimilate?
18. Why were all levels of government unprepared to help the new arrivals?
19. Which group in government stepped in to minister to the immigrants needs?
20. What did the political machines expect in return for the jobs and services they provided?
Walter Rauschenbusch
Washington Gladden
Social Gospel
Jane Addams /Hull House
21. What services did “Saint Jane” offer the immigrants who came to Hull House?
Lillian Wald/ Henry Street Settlement
Florence Kelley/ National Consumer’s League
22. Describe the new working opportunities for women in cities especially how they differed based on
race, class and ethnicity.
23. How did nativists view the New Immigrants?
24. What role did the belief in Anglo Saxon superiority play in the new nativism?
25. What radical political doctrines were middle class Americans afraid the immigrants had brought
with them?
American Protective Association
26. What reasons did labor union leaders have for opposing immigration?
27. Describe the restriction on immigration of 1882? 1885?
Statue of Liberty