1. America Moves to the City
The Urban Frontier

2. Bell Ringer
Give examples of these ideals, principles, and practices of citizenship in a democratic republic – liberty, justice, equality, and human dignity.

3. Objectives
Explain the strong connection among the new forces of industrialization, urbanization and immigration.
Describe the experience of the New Immigrants and explain why they were often regarded with suspicion or hostility.

4. The Urban Frontier Change in population requires change in transit
Department stores offer opportunities for working/middle class
Unsafe conditions lead to rich making suburbs

5. New Immigration Old vs. New Immigration Reasons for leaving:
No room
Life of opportunity
Little help from gov’t brings about Social Gospel Movement
Jane Addams
Florence Kelley

6. Nativist Response Nativism stems from fear of inferiority
Congress passes laws to restrict immigration
The US receives an ironic gift from France

7. Church v. City v. Darwin Church takes action to help with urban plight
Dwight Lyman Moody
Cardinal Gibbons
Mary Baker Eddy
Formation of YMCA/YWCA and Salvation Army
Modernists led by Darwin challenge Bible’s accuracy

8. Education A new trend in education leads to the Chautauqua movement
Booker T. Washington fights for education, avoids politics
W.E.B. Dubois agrees on education, demands political action
NAACP
Tuskegee, Vassar, Howard, Atlanta, John Hopkins
Morrill Act, Hatch Act

9. Appeal to the Masses

10. Objective
Consider the complicated effects of urbanization on women’s roles and family.
Examine the effect of new “popular amusements” on American society.

11. Appealing o the Masses Library of Congress brings literature to homes
Yellow Journalism brings a new form of entertainment
Joseph Pulitzer
Wm. Randolph Hearst

12. Apostles of Reform
Magazine critics publicize their appetite for change
Edwin L. Godkin
Henry George
Edward Bellamy

13. Literary Landmarks Dime novels depict romanticism and adventure
Lewis Wallace
Horatio Alger
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Jack London
Frank Norris
Paul Laurence Dunbar

14. New Sense of Morality
Proclamation of “free love”, a war on the immoral present new issues
Work affects everyone in the family
Organizations for to change society
NAWSA
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
ASPCA
American Red Cross

15. Opportunity for Entertainment
Paintings portray life as it was
Mary Cassatt
Thomas Eakins
Music reaches new heights with opera, jazz
Circus shows, “Wild West” shows bring new entertainment
Baseball
Wrestling
Basketball