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What were teh main people that immigrated before 1890

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Western European Protastants

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What was the religion of most people who immigrated

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Protestant’s

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What is an exception of protestant’s hold on immigration

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Irish were catholic

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Where did the immigrants go to

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Formed little ghettos in north west

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Who came after Western Eurpoeans

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Eastern Europeans like Italians Croats Slovaks Greeks Poles and Russians

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Driving forces 5

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  • Economic conditions
  • Population leads to famine
  • steam ships
    • needed to get them over here
  • pogrom
    • attack against the jews
  • potatoes help expansion of Europe and they get overcrowded
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Immigrant picture

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  • carrying everything they own
  • young and old do not immigrate
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What did the statue of liberty say

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give me your tired your poor your huddled masses

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How many Public schools were there back then

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6000 or so

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What was the literacy rate back then

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it was half or something

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literacy rate of black people in 1890

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50 percent

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pogrom

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attacks against the jews

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What is the reaction of immigration from gov

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no gov assistance

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who started social gospel movements

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Jane Addams

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Big Social gospel movements

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Christian Socialist Jane Addams in the Hull House for immigrants

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What did the Hull House do

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taught basic english and skills

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What were American Navist

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Fought immigration because they were “natives”

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What did the American Nativist worry about

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Be out Birthed and lose there position of Anglo Saxon dominants
worried that socialist would influence over capitalist’s

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What did the Unions think of the immigrants

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Hated them because they would work for cheaper

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What is the APA

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American Protective association

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What does the APA do

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protect white American
Urged to vote against catholic candidates

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How did the Governments respond to APA

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Alot of acts were put into place

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What acts did the government put into place against apa

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  • 1882 immigration Law banned paupers criminals and convicts
    • poorest of the poor
  • 1882 Chinese Exclusion act banned all immigrants from China not rescinded until 1943
  • 1886 the Statue of Liberty arrived from France because of a 100 year alliance
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West Indies immigration countries

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Jamacia, Cuba and Puerto Rico

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Why did Jamacia immigrate in large number
they could speak english already
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Why did Cuba immigrate in large numbers
It was close
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Why did puerto rico immigrate
its a us territory
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Who is the main Christan Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
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Who created Christian Science Church
Mary Baker Eddy
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Why was the YMCA set up
Help Urban Poor
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What is YWCA
Women thing of YMCA
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What happened because of Charles Darwin
split in reactions of church
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Who were the accommodationist
belived evolution was gods plan
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What belief caused a growth in public eductation
came out of the belief cannot function without properly if ignorant
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What belief caused a growth in public eductation
came out of the belief cannot function without properly if ignorant
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What else came out of public education and large immigaration
large numbers of catholic private schools
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What gave the idea of eductation a rise
public education
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What was the rivalry like between Booker T and WEB DeBouis
MLK and Malcom X
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Who are called Uncle Tom
Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas
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What happened to the literacy rate and why
grew because of public education and free librarys
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Who helped public librarys
carnegie
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What happened to newspaper circulation
Skyrocketed
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Who was in the buisness of the newspaper
- Joseph Pulizer - William Randolph Hearst
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What did Booker T washington open and what did he believe
- Tuskegee normal and industrial school and its like a trade school - Created for economicly self sufficent was key to blacks to get rights - Needed a base to eventually get sergergation because right now most are sharecroppers and borrow everything.
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What was Booker T washington Critized for
Called Uncle Tom by people who did not live in the south and didnt understand that they needed a base
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What came out of Booker T washingtons school
George Washington Carver
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What was George Washington Carver known for
- most famous teacher - an argicultural chemist who made new use for peanuts sweet potatos and soy bean
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What were DuBouis studies
irst black person to earn a PhD from Harvard
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What did DuBois believe
Complete equality in blacks
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What was founded under Dubois
NAACP
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What werid law did Dubois ask for, what critizim did he get
Demanded “Talented 1/10” given full social and political equality Booker T comes back at him and calls him a Hypocrite from that because its only blacks like him that get a boost
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What is Womens Suffrage about
The Right to vote
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What was the first orginizaton for womens right
National American Women Suffrage Association
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Who founded National American Women Suffrage Association
Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B Anthony
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What did the Women of Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B Anthony era do
nothing for womens rights
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Who tookover after the attempts of Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
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What was the ideas of Carrie Chapman Catt
Slow Gradualism like Booker T
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What acts helped public college
Morill and Hatch act
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What did the Morill and Hatch act do
grant of public lands to build new colleges and universites
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What types of colleges were improved through the grant of hatch act
Texas AM Ohio state Auburn all made from this, Noter dame not
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What did Pastures discovery lead to
death of beards
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What did Pasture discover
germs
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Who lead to the Temprance movement
women
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What nick name did rum get
demon rum
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Who made the Womens Cristans temperance movement
Francies willard
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Kansas Cyclone
- Carrie Nation Physically attacks bar and uses hatchet to smash it.
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Mark Twain
- Adventures of Tom sawyer - Huckleberry finn
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Stepen crane
The red badge of courage (slide)
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Jack London
- The call of the wild - Turner Thesis
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General Lewis Wallace
Ben Hur: A tale of the Christ
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Ben Hur: A tale of the Christ
General Lewis Wallace Anti Darwanism Uncle toms
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Croquet
Caddsbury
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Who created basketball and where was work
James Naismith at YMCA
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What was the first bike and what replaced it
A large bike that was stupid and Saftey bike replaced it
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Whowas the heavyweight champ
James Corbett
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Circus
Barnum and bailey
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first football team coach
Walter camp first all american

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