the rise of urban america - ahs ap u.s. history / frontpage
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The Rise of
Urban America1870-1920
A17W | 10.12.20
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Guiding Question 1
Identify and analyze the
factors that changed the
American city in the second
half of the nineteenth
century.
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Guiding Question 2
What key changes did
urbanization bring to
America? In what ways was
America becoming a
consumer and leisure
society?
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Guiding Question 3
Analyze the primary causes
of the population shift from
the rural to an urban
environment in the United
States between 1875 and
1925.
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URBANIZATION &
IMMIGRATION
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Population
Growth,
1860-1900
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Urbanization
Urbanization
Reasons
industrialization
mechanization
economic opportunity
urban culture
African Americans
gateways for
immigrants
(Divine, America Past and Present Revd 7th Ed.)
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Patterns in Urban Growth in Turn-of-the-Century America
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Late 19th Urbanization: Individual Cities
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Annual Immigration to the United States, 1860-1930
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Late 19th Century Immigration
Reasons for Late 19th
Century immigration
Push factors
Pull factors
“old” immigrants (1st wave)
“new” immigrants (2nd wave)
Sources of European Immigration to the United
States, 1870-1910 (Henretta, America’s History 4e)
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Foreign-born Population, 1890
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Population Composition of Selected Cities, 1920
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Urbanization
“immigrant ghettoes”
Why?
Ethnic and Class Segregation
in Milwaukee, 1850-1890.
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Efforts at Exclusion
Xenophobia / nativism (Why?)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Contract Labor Act (1885)
Restrictions on “undesirable” persons
Ellis Island (1892)
American Protective Association
Italian Immigrants, 1905
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Immigrants
Landing at Ellis
Island, c. 1900
(National Archives)
Ellis Island ~Examination Room (New York Public Library) Copyright 1997 State Historical
Society of Wisconsin Examination of immigrants at Ellis Island
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CHANGES IN THE
URBAN
LANDSCAPE
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Changes in the Urban Landscape
“walking” cities
mass transit
suburbs
“streetcar suburbs”
Why?
Madison Avenue Trolley, Covington, 1892
Suburban Homes, Sears
Catalog, 1911 © Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Attempts to Create
Order
skyscrapers
Louis Sullivan -
Chicago
The Flatiron Building,
New York City,
Alfred Steiglitz, 1902
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Changes in the Urban Landscape
Urban problems? Sanitation, pollution, crowds
Slums
tenements
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Tenement clotheslines, New York City (Library of Congress)
Yard of tenement at Park Place, New
York City (Library of Congress)
Poor Immigrant Neighborhood, Philadelphia, 1915
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CRISIS & REFORM
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Big City Government and “Bosses”
urban machines
political boss William M. Tweed
Tammany Ring
Boss George B. Cox
patronage
Bowery men with gift from Ward Boss Tim Sullivan, Feb., 1910(Library of Congress)
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Battling New Economic & Social Problems
YMCAs and YWCAs
Salvation Army
“deserving poor” “undeserving poor”
Social Gospel
Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the
Social Crisis
Settlement Houses
Hull House
Jane Addams >
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LEISURE,
CULTURE & EDUCATION
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Development of Mass Consumption
“white collar”
ready-made clothing
prepared food
catalogs
chain stores
department stores shopping as a leisure activity
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Mass Culture: Leisure in the Consumer Society
“leisure”
baseball - “national pastime”
amusement parks
Coney Island
newspapers
“yellow journalism”
William Randolph Hurst
Joseph Pulitzer
Moving Picture Exhibition, 1900
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High Culture: Art, Literature & Education
“high culture”
armory show (1914)
Charles Darwin
Education:
compulsory attendance laws
“kill the Indian, save the man”
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Colleges: land grant institutions
new female institutions
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Education- Illiteracy in the US