25 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Positives of urban frontier
Cities are growing
Jobs
Negatives of urban frontier
Sanitation overcrowded tenaments
The new immigration
Southern and eastern
Not necessarily catholic or Protestant. Little knowledge but factory experience
Push factors for new immigrants
Unemployment
Religious intolerance
War
Pull factors for new immigrants
High paying jobs
Opportunity
Why were the new immigrants not well received
Political views
Religious intolerance
Linked to being dirty and crime full
Chinese exclusion act
Prevented Chinese from migrating to America
Political machines
Immigrants vote for a person in exchange for clothes. Boss demands benefit for giving official job
Settlement houses
Created to help the assimilation of children in American society
Jayne Adams
Founder of whole house
Florence Kelly
Starts many settlement houses
Religion and churches in the city
Sermons didn’t “ fit” with city life
All different types of cities
Bible starts to be questioned literal or lesson based interpretation
Morill act and hatch act
Money and land go to universities to start up so in return colleges incorporate stuff to help government
Sensationalistic journalism
Exaggeration of facts
Pulitzer Randolph Herst
Twain/crane
Charlotte Perkins gillman
Encouraged women to enter work force
Women’s suffrage movement
Women should be able to vote
Booker T washington and the tuskagee institue
Trying to slowly assimilate black people into society and have vocational schools so they could be relied on by whites.
WEB
wanted black people to be immediatly given their rights. Blacks should be able to go to universtities like harvard yale etc.
