Immigrants who arrived from Eastern and Southern Europe from countries such as Greece, Russia and Italy.
What are "new" immigrants
100
Immigrants tended to move into cities during the late 1800's early 1900's because of many what were available there. (Two parts to this answer)
What is jobs and factories.
100
This group of people made up most of the high school students in the country during this time period.
What are women?
100
Establishments to help the poor and helpless in the city. This is the most famous of these.
What are settlement houses and Hull House.
100
Law that prohibited Chinese workers to enter the country for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
Immigrants who arrived to the United States from Northern and Western Europe from countries such as Ireland and England.
What are "Old" immigrants?
200
In the biggest, most crowded cities, the poorest people, who were mostly immigrants lived in small, dirty, run-down, housing known as..
What are tenements?
200
This was created by Booker T. Washington to educate African American men and women.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
200
New developments in these two area reshaped cities.
What are technology and transportation.
200
Some people recognized that immigrants had many positive contributions to society including their contribution into this.
What is the workforce?
300
Factors that forced people out of their country such as unemployment and drought.
What are push factors?
300
This group of people lived in the suburbs during the time of great immigration, to escape the city tenemants and slums.
What is the middle class.
300
New form of journalism where everything was sensationalized in order to sell papers and get out controversial topics.
What is yellow journalism?
300
William LeBaron Jenney
Who is the designer of the first skyscraper.
300
The first city in the United States to establish cable cars within the city for easier transportation.
What is San Francisco?
400
Factors that were similar to advertisements that got people to move into a specific country such as government programs.
What are pull factors?
400
Something covered with a thin layer of gold, such as the small amount of rich people compared to the vast amounts of poor in society.
What is the Guilded Age?
400
A type of writing in which the lives of everyday people were described and scrutinized.
What is realism?
400
The writer whose poem was placed on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty.
Who is Emma Lazarus?
400
These were built in order to keep cities from continually growing outside of it's boundries.
What are skyscrapers?
500
This group of immigrants did not adjust to their new lives in the United States as well as others, creating clustered neighborhoods of their cultures from their home country such as "China Town".
What are new immigrants?
500
Garbage overflow, horse manure accumulation, sewer issues, fires and theft
What are problems that occured with the growth of cities?
500
Americans were able to enjoy increased amounts of free time and create new ways of enjoying their time because they no longer relied on this.
What are jobs that depend on the sun rising and setting.
500
The organization that opposed immigration and tried to come up with new ways to keep immigrants out of the country.