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  1. Push factors
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What makes a person want to leave a place

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  1. Urbanization
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The migration of a person from rural areas to the city

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  1. Pull factors
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What makes someone want to come to a place

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  1. Immigrants ghettos
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Placed where immigrants would live after they had come to America

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  1. Assimilation
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The process of integrating through giving up ones old culture for a new one

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  1. Nativism
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The ideas that the only people who should be allowed in the country are white people from the mayflower

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  1. Immigration restrictions league
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Used tests to try and help stop and limit the flow of immigrants

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  1. Central Park
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Created to help make cities look nicer and allowed and escape

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  1. City beautiful movement
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The attempt to make cities nicer to live in

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  1. Back bay
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Landfill neighborhood in Boston

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  1. Suburbs
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Communities located on the out skirts of cities

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  1. Tenements
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Places where immigrants would live that often didn’t have windows

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  1. Jacob Riis
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Took pictures of people in tenements to help show how bad their living conditions were

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  1. Mass transit
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Help make commuting easier and cheaper

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  1. Skyscraper
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Buildings made possible due to the mass production of steel

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  1. Pollution
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Made due to coal burning in factories

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  1. Public health service
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charged with preventing occupational diseases
attempted to create common health standards for all factories
limited impact
established protection of public health as federal responsibility

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  1. Boss rule
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Immigrant politicians started to be able to have power over basic jobs

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  1. Tammany Hall
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political machine
George Washington Plunkitt
William M. Tweed

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  1. Boss Tweed
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an American politician most notable for being the “boss” of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State

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  1. Mass merchandising
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The high demand of products created a high need for production of goods

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  1. A & P
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is a supermarket and liquor store chain in the United States

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  1. Woolworth
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A chain of dried food chain stores

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  1. Chain stores
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Stores by the same name and owned by the same company that poped up everywhere

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25. Mail order catalog
Allowed buyers to choose from a wide array of goods and get them in a few month s
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26. Montgomery Ward
historically distinct American retail enterprises. It can refer either to the defunct mail order and department store retailer, which operated between 1872 and 2000
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27. Sears Roubuck
Created by Sears that sold a variation of goods and put out mail order catalogues
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28. Department Stores
Were designed to show that shopping could be a whole day affair
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29. National Consumer Leagues
1891, is an American consumer organization. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues
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30. Coney Island
An amusement park that helped people escape
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31. Major leagues baseball
Considered the nations sport and gained popularity after the civil war
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32. NCAA
National Collegiate athletics Association
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33. Basketball
Another sport that invoked a ball and was played in colleges
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34. George M Cohen
American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and produce
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35. Irving Berlin
An American composer and lyricist
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36. Vaudville
A show that combined various types of acts
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37. Birth of a Nation
One of the first silent films
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38. Nickelodeon
A jukebox that required a coin to play music
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39. Dime Novels
We're used as a source of entertainment inside homes
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40. Scott Joplin
Wrote and played ragtime music
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41. William Randolph Hearst
The owner of a newspaper company
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42. Joseph Pulitzer
Owner of the New York Sun a Newspaper company
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43. Ladies home journal
An American magazine published for women
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44. Mark Twain
Wrote books about young boys who lived in the south
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45. Uptown Sinclair
A black author/writer who wrote about the jungle oil
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46. Ashcan school of Art
An art school that encouraged realism
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47. Stephen Crane
Wrote the red badge of courage which is a famous American novel
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48. Charles Darwin
Had the idea that the fittest organism would live on
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49. Land Grant Universtiy
education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
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50. Women's colleges
Helped to educated women some were separated colleges while others we separate buildings

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