Immigration/City Growth
An immigration center opened in 1892 in New York Harbor
Ellis Island 1892
Reformer who authored "Progress and Poverty" in 1879 that called to attention the failings of laissez-faire capitalism along with the wealth polarization caused by industrialization
Henry George
A leading black intellectual, he advocated for equality for blacks, integrated schools, and equal access to higher education
W.E.B Du Bois
Architectural designs based on the Romanesque style, gave a gravity and stateliness to functional commercial buildings
Henry Hobson Richardson
A famous African American jazz musician from New Orleans.
Jell Roll Morton
Positive attractions of the adopted country such as political and religious freedom and economic opportunities
Negative Factors from which people are fleeing
Pull/Push Factors
They provide social services to new immigrants
Settlement Houses
The first great realist author, famous for his classic "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Mark Twain
The originator of landscape architecture, designed Central Park and grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
Frederick Law Olmsted
A traveling circus that was very popular.
Barnum & Bailey
As rich people left residences near the business district, the buildings were often divided into small crowded windowless apartments for the poor.
Tenements Poverty
1880s and 1890s movement advocated social justice for the poor based on Christian principles.
Social Gospel
Authors who broke away from romantic novels that depicted heroes and instead revealed the greed, violence, and racism in American society while other Authors also focused in how emotions and experience shaped the human experience.
Realism, Naturalism
A form of music that combined African rhythms and western-style instruments and mixed improvisation with a structured band format.
Jazz, blues, ragtime
Wrote a series of popular marches played in small town bandstands across the country.
John Philip Sousa
The ‘golden door’ of opportunity for all poor, oppressed, and unwanted homeless people around the world
Statue of Liberty
One of the founders of the NAWSA which worked to secure voting rights for women.
Susan B. Anthony/NAWA
A famous lawyer, argued that criminal behavior could be caused by an environment of poverty, neglect, and abuse.
Clarence Darrow
Developed an organic style that made his buildings fit in with their natural surroundings
Frank Floyd Wright
These were late 19th century sports of the wealthy
Country Clubs, golf, polo, yachts
Refers to immigrants leaving their old-world characteristics and adopting the United States characteristics. Other historians argue that first-generation immigrants maintained their cultural identity and only the second and third generations were assimilated in the U.S. society.
Melting pot vs. Cultural diversity
The leading figure of the Social Gospel movement, and a New York City minister
Walter Rauschenbusch
He wrote about the conflict between man and nature in books such as "The Call of the Wild".
Jack London
Revived the classical Greek and Roman architecture in his designs for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
Daniel H. Burnham
Established the first newspaper to exceed over one million in circulation by filling it with sensational stories of crime and disaster
Joseph Pulitzer