Immigration
Factors that draw an immigrant to a new country
Pull Factors
People that wanted to limit immigration and wanted America to mostly be native-born white protestants.
Nativists
The movement of rural populations into cities
Urbanization
Standards for construction and safety
building codes
Chicagoans did this to get cleaner drinking water.
Reverse the flow of the Chicago River
The immigration processing center on the West Coast.
Tight-knit communities of Chinese immigrants
China-towns
Cramped, windowless buildings that were mainly used to house poor people
Tenements
the call of middle class Christians to do their part in helping the poor
Social Gospel
This area of the Chicago River was so polluted that Upton Sinclair wrote in The Jungle that "Chickens had been seen to venture out on the scum formed on the surface after these eruptions—and this is not exaggeration."
Bubbly Creek
The process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to a new culture.
Acculturation
A law banning Chinese labors from immigrating to the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This lung disease killed half of all babies in a Chicago slum before their first birthday
Tuberculosis
A Christian organization that offered food and shelter to the poor, first in London and then in the U.S.
Salvation Army
This was a title given to immigrants from countries like England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia.
Old Immigrants
Airless rooms on ships that held immigrants
steerage
A reason that Nativists disliked new immigrants
A story by Jacob Riis about the tenements and poor population of cities
How the Other Half Lives
Community centers that offered services to the poor and struggling populations of cities
settlement houses
This giant statue of a woman promotes the idea that all people are welcome on America's shores.
The Statue of Liberty
Organized attacks on Jewish communities supported by the Russian Tsar
Pogroms
1943
In one banquet, a rich host gave his guests cigarettes rolled in what dollar bill
hundred dollar bills
This was the most famous settlement house, located in Chicago. Also name who started it.
Hull House, Jane Addams
This religious organization was a major provider of community services in Jewish communities, but not quite the subject of a hit song.
Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA)