Is it hot in here, or is it just me?
This immigrant turned photojournalist was responsible for exposing the condition immigrants were forced to live in
Jacob Riis
This man helped add skyscrapers to the Chicago skyline
Louis Sullivan
Seeing a need in Chicago for a safe place for immigrants to live, this woman created one
Jane Addams
Offering a way for people to get around, this included subways, Elevated trains, and trolleys
Mass Transit
These offered education, recreation, and social activities in addition to food and shelter
Settlement Houses
These dwellings were often poorly built and overcrowded
tenements
This man pioneered a way for you to get up and sometimes if you look down you can still see his name
Elisha Otis
This woman would eventually become a chief factory inspector after exposing poor working conditions
Florence Kelly
Used fancy large window displays to lure people in
department stores
Settlement house in Chicago
Hull House
Often associated with the clothing industry, these offered little pay and small, hot, unhealthy working conditions
sweatshop
Designed the US Capitol grounds, Prospect Park, and Central Park
Frederick Law Olmsted
Working with the Charity Organization Society, this man helped create laws regarding housing
Lawrence Veiller
Beginning after the Civil War, these offered families a break from the city, but they could easily commute back for work
suburbs
Offered help to immigrants in cases of unemployment, sickness, and death
Benevolent Societies
Both sometimes the place and the occupants, this was marked by hot, loud, and nasty conditions
Steerage
Italian immigrant that founded what would become the Bank America
Amadeo Peter Giannini
Their actions lead to Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
This xenophobic piece of legislation prohibited an entire culture from immigrating to the US
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Established the first Settlement House
Charles Stover and Stanton Coit
Old immigrants were primarily from where
Northern and Western Europe
Jacob Riis was an immigrant from where
Denmark
Immigrant group from Germany, Poland, Hungary
New Immigrants
Public entertainment, open public spaces, boom in publishing
Mass culture
Primary immigration port on the East Coast
Ellis Island