Keys to Urbanization
Why people moved to the city in the late 1800s.
What are jobs in the growing factories and shops.
The name given to multi-family urban apartment units, often overcrowded.
What are tenements?
This station opened up in 1892 to process new immigrants on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
This type of entertainment includes song, dance, and comedy routines. It attracted lower and middle class audiences.
What is vaudeville?
Who is the party boss?
This invention made it possible to live in a high-rise building or skyscraper.
What are elevators?
Christians who believed that their faith should include working toward the betterment of those in need due to the ills of the Gilded Age, from low wages to poor and/or unaffordable housing.
What is the Social Gospel or Social Gospel movement?
The change in immigration patterns in the 1890s brought peoples from these two regions of Europe in much greater numbers than ever before.
What are Eastern and Southern Europe (as a source of new immigrants)?
This game became "America's national pastime" during the Gilded Age, building huge venues for spectators.
What is baseball?
The most notorious politician of New York city, he ran Tammany Hall for the Democrats.
Who is William Macy Tweed or "Boss Tweed"?
Two forms of urban transportation that replaced horse-drawn carriages for many city residents.
What are elevated railways, trams, streetcars, and subways.
This movement provided college-educated women jobs, while simultaneously providing new immigrants and urban poor with childcare, English classes, and other services.
What is the settlement house movement?
Wars, lack of economic opportunity, and religious persecution are examples of this type of factor that causes people to emigrate.
What is a push factor?
Wealthy sons attending Yale might have heard a lecture from William Graham Sumner on this subject -- justifying their fathers business practices as "survival of the fittest."
What is Social Darwinism?
Financial kickbacks to party bosses and politicians in return for political favors.
What is graft?
To find support in the growing cities, new immigrants tended to live here.
What are ethnic neighborhoods or ethnic ghettos?
One of the two reasons African Americans moved to northern industrial cities.
What is to escape the racism and violence in the South OR to find work in the growing industrial factories of the North?
The areas where most new immigrants from Southern Italy, Ireland and Eastern Europe settled.
What are East Coast port cities?
This famous music venue in New York City represents the philanthropy meant to improve cities donated by the Gilded Age wealthy.
What is Carnegie Hall?
The expectation that you will receive aid, a job, or favors after working to elect a politicians.
What is political patronage?
To counteract the overcrowding and provide some relief from urban grime, this movement of the late 1800s influenced many cities.
What is the City Beautiful Movement?
Three health issues of Gilded Age urban life.
What are open sewers, no hot and old running water, communicable diseases, overcrowding, fire hazards, crime and congestion?
This group wanted to curb immigration to the United States starting in the late 1800s.
What is the American Protective Association?
Attending one of the openings of new urban art museums in the Gilded Age, the wealthy patrons might have seen this type of art or American school of art portraying the grime and harshness of urban life.
What is American realism or the Ashcan School?
The assassination of Pres. Garfield by a political supporter who expected a job led to this political reform at the federal level.
What is the Pendleton (Civil Service) Act?