City Life
Was the second largest city at the time
What is New York City?
Term for the post-1880 newcomers who came to America primarily from southern and eastern Europe
What are "new immigrants"?
The people with strong feelings against new immigrants, who worried that America was becoming a dumping pot.
Who is "nativist?"
The name for teacher training schools.
What are normal schools?
She inspired black women to mobilize politically and helped inspire the National Association of Colored Women.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Settlement house in the Chicago slums that became a model for women’s involvement in urban social reform
What is Hull House?
These communications told family members in the old country about the opportunities available in America.
What are "American letters"?
These organized groups disliked new immigrants because they would work for "starvation wages" and were frequently used as scabs.
What are labor unions?
Black educational institution founded by Booker T. Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
Tools that became vital for women's independence and enabled them to enter the work force.
What is switch boards and typewriters?
The religious doctrines preached by those who believed that churches should directly address and work to reform economic and social problems
What is "social gospel"?
The reason many immigrants migrated to America.
What is employment, religious freedom, and/or overpopulation in Europe.
Nativist organization that attacked New Immigrants and Roman Catholicism in the 1880s and 1890s
What is the American Protective Association?
Former slave who promoted industrial education and economic opportunity but not social equality for blacks
Who is Booker T. Washington?
High-rise urban buildings that provided barracks-like housing for urban slum dwellers
What are tenements?
This legislation closed the US to criminals and convicts, especially those from Asia.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Land grants to states to support higher education.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862?
The federal government encouraged immigration by helping pay an immigrants passage with this
What is the Contract Labor Act of 1864?
Provoked hostility from some native-born Americans and organized labor groups
What are cultural differences of the new immigrants?
Harvard-educated scholar and advocate of full black social and economic equality through ceaseless agitations and the leadership of a talented tenth
Who is W.E.B DuBois?
Organization created to revitalize the women's movement by focusing on the right to vote to participate in the community.
What is the National American Women's Suffrage Association?