Coming to America
something that is causing you to leave your country
what was the push factor?
A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention
What is a patent?
This is the requirement that children attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education?
the rapid growth of the cities population
what was urbanization?
In towns and villages people needed these to stay informed about what was going on.
What were newspapers?
immigrants traveled by boat and were kept in large compartments that would usually hold cattle.
What were steerage?
He produced hundreds of useful inventions including the light bulb, phonograph, and the motion picture camera
Who was Thomas Edison?
For the elementary school students, the typical school day lasted from 8 A.M to 4 P.M. Pupils learned the "three r's" which were _______, ______, and _______.
What we're reading, 'righting, and 'rithmetic?
buildings divided into many tiny apartments with no windows, heat, or indoor pluming
what were tenement's?
The writers who try to write about life and the realistic ways of it
who were realist?
organization immigrant aid societies helped new arrivals with
what is housing, clothing, and language classes?
An invention that used a series of dots and dashes to communicate
What was a telegraph?
These were the most widely used textbooks
What were McGuffey's Eclectic Readers?
Reformer who worked hard for poor city dwellers. Came from a well to do family however felt strong sympathy for the poor. Who also opened a settlement house in Chicago in !889.
who was Jane Addams?
Described the sensational reporting style of the New York and other writing papers
What was yellow journalism?
new coming immigrants clung onto their traditional modes of work, life, and knowing their communities, on the other hand they also tried to becoming part of the new culture
what was assimilation?
He wanted to build a device that would carry the human voice
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
He gave money to towns and cities to build public libraries.
Who was Andrew Carneige?
A center offering help to the urban poor. Soon reformers, most of them women had started in other major cities
what were settlement houses?
The most famous writer at the time who wrote realistic stories that captured speech of southerners who lived and worked along the Mississippi river
Who was Mark Twain?
what were two of the foods that the Polish and Hungarian immigrants ate during their holidays.
what were kielbasa and goulash?
He created a letter-writing device called the "type writer" that made office work faster and cheaper
Who was Christopher Sholes?
In 1854. a Methodist minister opened a summer school for Bible teachers along this lake.
What was Lake Chautauqua?
created basketball in spring field, Massachusetts in 1891 which became the favorite winter sport.
who was James Naismith?
Hungarian immigrant who created the first newspaper and brought it to the New York World. Made prices low so more people could afford it
Who was Joseph Pulitzer?