A Flood of Immigrants
Immigrant Experience
Expanding Education
Cities in Crisis
A Nation of Readers
100
What type of immigrants did not speak English? New or Old?
New
100
What was an immigrant's greatest challenge?
Finding work
100
How much education did African American's receive?
little or none
100
What created sanitation and health problems?
overcrowding
100
Who grabbed reader's attention in 1883? With what?
Joseph Pulitzer; New York World
200
Many new immigrants were religious groups such as _______ and______.
Catholics and Jews
200
Immigrant men, women, and children worked where?
In sweatshops
200
"Progressive Education" wanted to.......
shape students' character and teach them good citizenship as well as facts
200
____ and____ accumulated the streets.
Garbage and horse manure
200
How many people read the world everyday?
about 1 million
300
Name one reason why immigrants left their homelands to come to America?
Economic Troubles, Persecution, or Discrimination
300
What does it mean to 'assimilate'?
To blend in or become apart of the American culture
300
Who criticized schools for making children memorize information?
John Dewey
300
What are some religious groups that aided the poor?
YMCA and YWCA
300
What happened when opportunities for education grew?
many Americans became interested in reading
400
Angel Island was in what city?
San Fransisco
400
Women in the U.S. had more______ than immigrant women.
freedom
400
When did most states require children to have some schooling?
1914
400
What is a settlement house?
it provided medical care, playgrounds, nurseries, classes, and libraries
400
Between 1865 and 1900, the number of magazines rose from___ to ___.
700 to 5000
500
Most immigrants arrived from ____ and ____.
Eastern and Southern Europe
500
____ and ____ often acted as community leaders?
Priests and rabbis
500
What is a land-grant college?
a college established as a result of the Morrill Act of 1862
500
Cities established ___________ for those who could not pay for medical care.
public health clinics
500
Starting in 1881, Andrew Carnegie donated more than $_____ to found more than _____ libraries around the world.
30 million and 2,000
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