1. America moves to the city
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America moves to the city

2. Over 1 million by 1890
New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia

3. New immigration South East Europe. Italians, Russians, Hungarians.
Catholics, Jews, Greek or Russian Orthodox

4. Settlement houses English lessons, daycare, and cultural activities
Women’s activism & social reform
Hull House
Jane Addams

5. Nativism (anti-foreignism)
Immigrants inferior
American Protective Association
Voting against Catholics (feared Papal influence)
1882: Criminals forced back to home countries
1882: Chinese Exclusion Act
1885: No foreign workers under contract

6. Black education Booker T. Washington George Washington Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Economic independence key!
Avoided issue of social equality
George Washington Carver
Agricultural Chemist
W.E.B. Du Bois
Formed NAACP
Against Washington
Complete and immediate
equality

7. Press Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst
Sensationalism/yellow journalism
New York World
William Randolph Hearst
Newspaper chains
NY Journal

8. Literacy
Magazines
Dime Novels
Literary Landmarks (see handout)

9. Social movements National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890)
National Association of Colored Women (1896)
Ida B. Wells
National Prohibition League (1869)
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1874)
Prohibition: 18th amendment passed 1919