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Why It MattersBy 1914 as many Americans lived in cities as in rural areas Between 1860 and 1910
the urban population of the nation grew from a little over 6 million people to morethan 40 million
The Impact TodayDuring these years of urban growth many aspects of modern city life emerged Prob-
lems arose such as poverty crime and inadequate housing but benefits such asdaily newspapers libraries and public parks appeared as well
The American Journey Video The chapter 20 video ldquoEllis Island In theShadow of Lady Libertyrdquo details the hardships immigrants faced when arriving in America
1871bull Great Chicago fire
1882bull Chinese
Exclusion Act passed
1866bull Transatlantic telegraph line
successfully completed
1884bull First skyscraper built
in Chicago
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1865 1875 1885
Grant1869ndash1877
Hayes1877ndash1881
Garfield1881
Arthur1881ndash1885
Cleveland1885ndash1889
1886bull Statue of Liberty
dedicated
Toward anUrban America
1865ndash1914
B Harrison1889ndash1893
1900bull Freudrsquos Interpretation
of Dreams published
1889bull Eiffel Tower
erected
A Johnson1865ndash1869
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1900bull Nationrsquos population
passes 75 million
1906bull San Francisco rocked
by earthquake
1913bull Ford develops first
moving assembly line
c 1907bull Cubism arises in art
1911bull Italy seizes Libya
HISTORY
Chapter OverviewVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 20mdashChapter Overviews to pre-view chapter information
New York City East Side 1900 New arrivals crowded into Americarsquos citiesand brought with them the cultural heritage of their homelands
CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America
1895 1905 1915
McKinley1897ndash1901
T Roosevelt1901ndash1909
Taft1909ndash1913
Cleveland1893ndash1897
1892bull Ellis Island
admits immigrants
12
Fold it so the leftedge lies about inch from the
right edge
Step 1 Fold a sheet of paper in half fromside to side
Step 2 Turn the paper and fold it into thirds
Step 3 Unfold and cut the top layer only alongboth folds
Step 4 Label as shown
This will makethree tabs
Sequencing Events Study Foldable Analyze andsequence key influences that led to the urbaniza-tion of the United States by making this foldable
Reading and Writing As you read the chapterwrite information about these influences underthe appropriate tabs Think about how theseinfluences followed and affected one another
The NewImmigrants
Movingto the
City
A ChangingCulture
1882Chinese ExclusionAct is passed
1886Statue of Liberty is erected
1892Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
1917Immigration Act of1917 requires literacy
Main IdeaIn the late 1800s and early 1900s thepattern of immigration was changing
Key Termsemigrate ethnic group steeragesweatshop assimilate
Reading StrategyAnalyzing Information As you studySection 1 re-create the diagrambelow and write the reasons immi-grants came to America
Read to Learnbull what opportunities and difficulties
immigrants found in the UnitedStates
bull how the arrival of new immigrantschanged American society
Section ThemeCulture and Traditions The numberof immigrants from southern and east-ern Europe increased dramatically
The New Immigrants
In the 1870s two young brothers left Italy for America ldquoWe were so long on thewater that we began to think we should never get to America We were all landedon an island and the bosses there said that Francisco and I must go back because wehad not enough money but a man named Bartolo came up and told them that hewas our uncle and would take care of us We came to Brooklyn to a wooden houseon Adams Street that was full of Italians from Naples Bartolo had a room on the thirdfloor and there were fifteen men in the room all boarding with Bartolo It was veryhot in the room but we were soon asleep for we were very tiredrdquo
A Flood of ImmigrantsBefore 1865 most immigrants to the United Statesmdashexcept for the enslaved
mdashcame from northern and western Europe The greater part of these ldquooldrdquoimmigrants were Protestant spoke English and blended easily into Americansociety After the Civil War even greater numbers of immigrants made the
Immigrantrsquos ticket
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Reasons forimmigrating
Preview of Events
Guide to Reading
1880 1900 1920
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journey to the United States The tide of new-comers reached a peak in 1907 when nearly 13million people came to America
GeographyNew Immigration
In the mid-1880s the pattern of immigrationstarted to change Large groups of ldquonewrdquo immi-grants arrived from eastern and southernEurope Greeks Russians Hungarians ItaliansTurks and Poles were among the newcomersAt the same time the number of ldquooldrdquo immi-grants started to decrease By 1907 only about 20percent of the immigrants came from northernand western Europe while 80 percent camefrom southern and eastern Europe
Many of the newcomers from eastern andsouthern Europe were Catholics or Jews Fewspoke English Because of this they did notblend into American society as easily as theldquooldrdquo immigrants had Many felt like outsidersand they clustered together in urban neighbor-hoods made up of people of the same nationality
After 1900 immigration from Mexico alsoincreased In addition many people came to theUnited States from China and Japan They toobrought unfamiliar languages and religiousbeliefs and had difficulty blending into Ameri-can society
Leaving Troubles BehindWhy did so many people leave their home-
lands for the United States in the late 1800s andearly 1900s They were ldquopushedrdquo away by diffi-cult conditions at home and ldquopulledrdquo to theUnited States by new opportunities
Many people emigrated or left their home-lands because of economic troubles In Italyand Hungary overcrowding and poverty madejobs scarce Farmers in Croatia and Serbiacould not own enough land to support theirfamilies Sweden suffered major crop failuresNew machines such as looms put many craftworkers out of work
Persecution also drove people from theirhomelands In some countries the governmentpassed laws or followed policies against certainethnic groupsmdashminorities that spoke differentlanguages or followed different customs fromthose of most people in a country Members ofthese ethnic groups often emigrated to escapediscrimination or unfair laws Many Jews fledpersecution in Russia in the 1880s and came tothe United States
Seeking OpportunityImmigrants saw the United States as a land of
jobs plentiful and affordable land and opportu-nities for a better life Although some immi-grants returned to their homelands after a fewyears most came to America to stay
Describing Who were the ldquonewrdquoimmigrantsImmigrants arrive in New York Harbor
from Hamburg Germany in 1906Where did most immigrants toAmerica come from after 1880
History
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The Journey to AmericaImmigrants often had a difficult journey to
America Many had to first travel to a seaport toboard a ship Often they traveled for hundredsof miles on foot or on horseback and throughforeign countries to get to the port cities
Then came the long ocean voyage to Amer-icamdash12 days across the Atlantic or several weeksacross the Pacific Immigrants usually couldafford only the cheapest tickets and they trav-eled in steeragemdashcramped noisy quarters onthe lower decks
The Statue of LibertyMost European immigrants landed at New
York City After 1886 the magnificent sight of theStatue of Liberty greeted the immigrants as theysailed into New York Harbor The statue a giftfrom France seemed to promise hope for a betterlife in the new country On the base of the statuethe stirring words of Emma Lazarus an Ameri-can poet welcomed immigrants from Europe
ldquoGive me your tired your poorYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these the homeless tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden doorrdquo
Entering AmericaBianca De Carli arrived from Italy in 1913 as a
young girl Many years later she rememberedhow she felt as her ship reached New York City
ldquoWe all trembled because of the strangenessand the confusion Some were weak fromno movement and exercise and some were sickbecause of the smells and the unfresh air Butsomehow this did not matter because we nowknew it was almost overrdquo
Before the new arrivals could actually passthrough the ldquogolden doorrdquo to America they hadto register at government reception centers Inthe East immigrants were processed at CastleGarden a former fort on Manhattan Island andafter 1892 at Ellis Island in New York HarborMost Asian immigrants arrived in America onthe West Coast and went through the processingcenter on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay
Examiners at the centers recorded the immi-grantsrsquo namesmdashsometimes shortening or sim-plifying a name they found too difficult to writeThe examiners asked the immigrants wherethey came from their occupation and whetherthey had relatives in the United States Theexaminers also gave health examinations Immi-grants with contagious illnesses could berefused permission to enter the United States
Describing How long did the oceanvoyage across the Atlantic take
The Immigrant ExperienceAfter passing through the reception centers
most immigrants entered the United StatesWhere would they go How would they liveSome had relatives or friends to stay with and tohelp them find jobs Others knew no one andwould have to strike out on their own
Finding WorkAn immigrantrsquos greatest challenge was find-
ing work Sometimes organizations in his or herhomeland recruited workers for jobs in theUnited States The organization supplied Amer-ican employers with unskilled workers whoworked unloading cargo or digging ditches
Some of Americarsquos fastest-growing indus-tries hired immigrant workers In the steelmills of Pittsburgh for example most of the
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The first stop for millions of immigrants was
Ellis Island About 12 million people passed through theEllis Island immigration center between 1892 and 1954The main building was reopened in 1990 as the EllisIsland Museum of Immigration Located a short distancenorth of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor EllisIsland stands as a memorial to the traditions of freedomand opportunity in America
Ellis Island
The Journey to AmericaImmigrants often had a difficult journey to
America Many had to first travel to a seaport toboard a ship Often they traveled for hundredsof miles on foot or on horseback and throughforeign countries to get to the port cities
Then came the long ocean voyage to Amer-icamdash12 days across the Atlantic or several weeksacross the Pacific Immigrants usually couldafford only the cheapest tickets and they trav-eled in steeragemdashcramped noisy quarters onthe lower decks
The Statue of LibertyMost European immigrants landed at New
York City After 1886 the magnificent sight of theStatue of Liberty greeted the immigrants as theysailed into New York Harbor The statue a giftfrom France seemed to promise hope for a betterlife in the new country On the base of the statuethe stirring words of Emma Lazarus an Ameri-can poet welcomed immigrants from Europe
ldquoGive me your tired your poorYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these the homeless tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden doorrdquo
Entering AmericaBianca De Carli arrived from Italy in 1913 as a
young girl Many years later she rememberedhow she felt as her ship reached New York City
ldquoWe all trembled because of the strangenessand the confusion Some were weak fromno movement and exercise and some were sickbecause of the smells and the unfresh air Butsomehow this did not matter because we nowknew it was almost overrdquo
Before the new arrivals could actually passthrough the ldquogolden doorrdquo to America they hadto register at government reception centers Inthe East immigrants were processed at CastleGarden a former fort on Manhattan Island andafter 1892 at Ellis Island in New York HarborMost Asian immigrants arrived in America onthe West Coast and went through the processingcenter on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay
Examiners at the centers recorded the immi-grantsrsquo namesmdashsometimes shortening or sim-plifying a name they found too difficult to writeThe examiners asked the immigrants wherethey came from their occupation and whetherthey had relatives in the United States Theexaminers also gave health examinations Immi-grants with contagious illnesses could berefused permission to enter the United States
Describing How long did the oceanvoyage across the Atlantic take
The Immigrant ExperienceAfter passing through the reception centers
most immigrants entered the United StatesWhere would they go How would they liveSome had relatives or friends to stay with and tohelp them find jobs Others knew no one andwould have to strike out on their own
Finding WorkAn immigrantrsquos greatest challenge was find-
ing work Sometimes organizations in his or herhomeland recruited workers for jobs in theUnited States The organization supplied Amer-ican employers with unskilled workers whoworked unloading cargo or digging ditches
Some of Americarsquos fastest-growing indus-tries hired immigrant workers In the steelmills of Pittsburgh for example most of the
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The first stop for millions of immigrants was
Ellis Island About 12 million people passed through theEllis Island immigration center between 1892 and 1954The main building was reopened in 1990 as the EllisIsland Museum of Immigration Located a short distancenorth of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor EllisIsland stands as a memorial to the traditions of freedomand opportunity in America
Ellis Island
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Language highlightedthe differences betweengenerations Many immi-grant parents continuedto speak their native lan-guages Their childrenspoke English at schooland with friends but theyalso spoke their nativelanguage at home On the other hand the grand-children of many immigrants spoke only English
The role of immigrant women also changed inthe United States where women generally hadmore freedom than women in European andAsian countries New lifestyles conflicted withtraditional ways and sometimes caused familyfriction (See page 971 of the Primary Sources Library for one
womanrsquos account of leaving her native country)
Building CommunitiesMost of the new immigrants were from rural
areas Because they lacked the money to buyfarmland in America however they often set-tled in industrial cities With little or no educa-tion they usually worked as unskilled laborers
Relatives who had immigrated earlierhelped new arrivals get settled and people ofthe same ethnic group naturally tended to form
Immigrant children learn American ways in the classroom
common laborers in the early 1900s were immi-grant men They might work 12 hours a dayseven days a week
Many immigrants including women andchildren worked in sweatshops in the garmentindustry These were dark crowded workshopswhere workers made clothing The work wasrepetitious and hazardous the pay low and thehours long
Pauline Newman who later became an offi-cial in the International Ladiesrsquo Garment Work-ers Union worked in a New York sweatshop asa child She recalled
ldquoWe started work at seven-thirty in the morn-ing and during the busy season we worked untilnine in the evening They didnrsquot pay you anyovertime and they didnrsquot give you anything forsupper money Sometimes theyrsquod give you a lit-tle apple pie if you had to work very laterdquo
Adjusting to AmericaIn their new homes immigrants tried to pre-
serve some aspects of their own cultures At thesame time most wanted to assimilate orbecome part of the American culture These twodesires sometimes came into conflict
HISTORY
Student Web ActivityVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 20mdashStudent Web Activitiesfor an activity on immigration
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Should We Welcome or Prevent Immigration to Our Country
Immigrants struggled to find their place in American society They changed American society with customs from their cultures Many Americans resisted these changes and warned against further immigration
San Francisco Real Estate Circular September 1874
The Chinese come for a season only
and while they give their labor they do not
[spend the money they earn] in the coun-
try They do not come to settle or make
homes To compare the Chinese with
even the lowest white laborers is there-
fore absurdOur best interests are suffering of
these Asiatic slaves we are trying to
make them live decently while here and
to discourage their arrival in such numbers
as to drive white laborers out of the country
communities As a result neighbor-hoods of Jewish Italian Polish Chi-nese and other groups quicklydeveloped in New York ChicagoSan Francisco and other large cities
The immigrants sought to re-createsome of the life they had left behindThe communities they establishedrevolved around a number of tradi-tional institutions Most importantwere the houses of worshipmdashthechurches and synagoguesmdashwhereworship was conducted and holidayswere celebrated as they had been intheir homelands Priests and rabbisoften acted as community leaders
The immigrants published news-papers in their native languagesopened stores and theaters andorganized social clubs Ethnic com-munities and institutions helped theimmigrants preserve their culturalheritage
Describing What isassimilation
Nativist MovementAssimilation was also slowed by
the attitudes of many native-bornAmericans Although employers werehappy to hire immigrant workers atlow wages some American-bornworkers resented the immigrantsThese Americans feared that theimmigrants would take away theirjobs or drive down everyonersquoswages by accepting lower pay
Ethnic religious and racial differ-ences contributed to tensions betweenAmericans and the new immigrantsSome Americans argued that thenew immigrantsmdashwith their foreignlanguages unfamiliar religions anddistinctive customsmdashdid not fit intoAmerican society
Attorney Louis Marshall Speaks Out Against LimitingImmigration 1924In common with all other immigrants those whohave come from the countries sought to be tabooed[forbidden] have been industrious and law-abiding and have made valuable contributions to our industrialcommercial and social development To say that they are not assimilable argues igno-rance The facts show that they adopt Americanstandards of living and that they are perme-ated [filled] with the spirit of our institutionsIt is said that they speak foreign languagesbut in those foreign languages they aretaught to love our Government
Louis Marshall
1 What did the writer from San Fran-cisco seem to fear
2 What did Louis Marshall claimabout the immigrantsrsquo contribu-tions
3 What facts does Marshall use to support his view that the new-comers are ldquoassimilablerdquo
Learning From History
Chinese immigrants
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People found it easy to blame immigrants forincreasing crime unemployment and otherproblems The nativist movement for examplehad opposed immigration since the 1830sNativism gained strength in the late 1800s Callsfor restrictions on immigration mounted
New Immigration LawsLawmakers responded quickly to the tide of
anti-immigrant feeling In 1882 Congress passedthe first law to limit immigrationmdashthe ChineseExclusion Act This law prohibited Chineseworkers from entering the United States for 10years Congress extended the law in 1892 andagain in 1902
In 1907 the federal government and Japancame to a ldquogentlemanrsquos agreementrdquo The Japan-ese agreed to limit the number of immigrants tothe United States while the Americans pledgedfair treatment for Japanese Americans already inthe United States
Other legislation affected immigrants from allnations An 1882 law made each immigrant paya tax and also barred criminals from entering thecountry In 1897 Congress passed a bill requiringimmigrants to be able to read and write in somelanguage Although President Cleveland vetoedthe bill as unfair Congress later passed theImmigration Act of 1917 which included a sim-ilar literacy requirement
Support for ImmigrantsDespite some anti-immigrant sentiment
many Americansmdashincluding Grace Abbott andJulia Clifford Lathrop who helped found theImmigrantsrsquo Protective Leaguemdashspoke out insupport of immigration These Americans rec-ognized that the United States was a nation ofimmigrants and that the newcomers made last-ing contributions to their new society
Immigrantsrsquo ContributionsThe new immigrants supplied the countryrsquos
growing industries with the workers that werenecessary for economic growth At the sametime the new immigrants and their childrenmdashlike the old immigrants before themmdashhelpedshape American life They gave the nation itsmajor religious groupsmdashProtestants Catholicsand Jews As they became part of the societyaround them they enriched that society withthe customs and cultures and the language andliterature of their homelands
The effects of immigration were most visiblein the cities with their fast-growing ethnicneighborhoods The flow of immigrants was oneof the factors that transformed Americarsquos citiesin the late 1800s and the early 1900s
Explaining What was the nativistmovement
Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Use each of these terms
in a sentence that will help explain itsmeaning emigrate ethnic groupsteerage sweatshop assimilate
2 Reviewing Facts Explain the differ-ence between ldquoold immigrationrdquo andldquonew immigrationrdquo
Reviewing Themes3 Culture and Traditions What were
some of the cultural differences thatimmigrants had to adjust to in theUnited States
Critical Thinking4 Drawing Conclusions Why do you
think some Americans blamed theldquonewrdquo immigrants for many of soci-etyrsquos problems
5 Organizing Information Re-createthe diagram below and give threereasons why some Americans did notaccept the new immigrants
Analyzing Visuals6 Picturing History Select one of the
photographs that appear in Section 1and write a paragraph in which youdescribe the scene Include a title forthe photograph
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Art Create a collage illustrating theorigins of immigrants who came to the United States after 1880Clip photographs from advertise-ments and newsmagazines tomake your collage
Anti-immigrant feelings
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1849000
1215000
L A T I N
A M E R I C A
C a n a d a
U n i t e d
S t a t e s
1 Why do you think Italian Polish and Japaneseimmigrants settled where they did
2 In what regions of the world did the number ofemigrants change the most from 1890 to 1930
L E A R N I N G f r o m G E O G R A P H Y
NEW AMERICANSBETWEEN 1890 AND 1930 people viewed the UnitedStates as a land of opportunity because growing Americanindustries were searching for workers More than 20 millionimmigrants poured into the country The largest groupscame from southern central and eastern EuropeImmigrants came seeking jobs and freedom They fled from crop failures political repression and military service
LIFE IN AMERICA
Most newcomers settled near other immigrants from theirown country The largest group Italians settled primarily inthe Midwest and Northeast They were escaping from a disas-trous cholera epidemic and repeated crop failures Althoughthey had been farm workers in southern Italy they settled incities and found jobs building railroads streets and buildingsor selling produce Many of the women went to work for thegarment industry
Poles Czechs Serbs Croats and Russians came seekingmore freedom Poles tended to form close-knit communities in the industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast For many of them life centered on the Catholic Church and theysent their children to parochial schools Women tended toestablish boardinghouses or laundries The men worked in steel mills and slaughterhouses
Japanese immigrants settled in Hawaii California and thePacific Northwest They found work in agriculture forestryand fisheries Soon Japanese immigrants were growing 10 per-cent of Californiarsquos produce
The tide of immigration slowed in the early 1920s when the government imposed new restrictions Neverthelessimmigrants still continued to play an important role shapingAmerican culture
ampGEOGRAPHY HISTORY
0
0
1500 miles
1500 kilometers
US Immigration 1890ndash1930
Number of immigrants per region
3323000
588
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617000
22000
40000
3323000
5617000
3761000
5108000
A F R I C A
A S I AA S I A
O C E A N I A
C h i n a
I n d i a
Turkey
Italy
Poland
SOUTHERN
EUROPE
EASTERN EUROPE and RussiaNORTHERN
EUROPE
CENTRAL
EUROPEJapan
Where Immigrants Settled
1900ndash1930
More than 100000
50000ndash100000
10000ndash49999
5000ndash9999
Less than 5000
JapanesePolishItalian
Northern Europe
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Southern Europe
Southern Europe
12
Eastern Europe
and Russia 8
Central Europe
35
Northern Europe
43
Other 2(Canada Africa Asia
Latin America Oceania)
Northern Europe
Central Europe
Southern
Europe
Canada
Latin
America
Southern Europe
11
Northern Europe
29
Central Europe
19
Canada
27
Eastern Europe
and Russia
2
2 Asia
1930
1890
Other 1(Africa Latin America Oceania)
Latin America
9
Main IdeaCities in the United States expandedrapidly in the late 1800s
Key Termstenement slum suburb The GildedAge settlement house
Reading StrategyAnalyzing Information As you studySection 2 re-create the diagrambelow and list three serious problemsfacing American cities in the late1800s
Read to Learnbull how American cities grew and
changedbull what problems cities faced and
how people tried to solve them
Section ThemeScience and Technology ManyAmericans left the nationrsquos farms hoping to make their fortunes in the cities
Moving to the City
A train pulling into Chicago in 1884 carried a young passenger named Hamlin Garland For Garland who had grown up on a farm the big city was a bewilderingsight Garland later became famous for his stories about the Midwest In one novel hedescribed his feeling of dismay when he first saw Chicago ldquoThe mere thought of a mil-lion people stunned my imaginationrdquo Garland wondered ldquoHow can so many peoplefind a living in one placerdquo
Growth of CitiesAmerican cities grew rapidly after the Civil War In 1870 one American in
four lived in cities with 2500 or more people By 1910 nearly half of the Ameri-can population were city dwellers The United States was changing from a ruralto an urban nation
Immigrants played an enormous part in the growth of cities In major urbancenters such as New York Detroit and Chicago immigrants and their childrenmade up 80 percent or more of the population in 1890
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Immigrantrsquos suitcaseand Bibles
1873The Gilded Ageis published
1889Jane Addams founds Hull House
1883The Brooklyn Bridge opens
1884First skyscraper constructed in Chicago
Urban problems
Preview of Events
Guide to Reading
1870 1890 1880
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Native-born Americans also contributed tourban growth Americans moved in huge num-bers from farming areas to cities looking for jobs
The industrialization of America had changedwork on farms New farm machinery made itpossible to produce crops using fewer farm-workers In addition women in rural areas nolonger had to make clothing and householdgoods These items made by machine couldnow be bought in stores or from catalogs Freedfrom such chores many women left farms tolook for jobs in the cities
African Americans also migrated to cities inlarge numbers The vast majority of the coun-tryrsquos African American population lived in therural South in great poverty Many AfricanAmericans began moving to Southern cities insearch of jobs and to escape debt injustice ordiscrimination After 1914 a large number ofAfrican Americans moved to Northern citieswhich offered more jobs in industry and manu-facturing than Southern cities did Many AfricanAmericans also hoped to find less discrimina-tion and violence in the North
Transportation and ResourcesAmericarsquos expanding railroad network fed the
growth of the cities Railroads helped peoplemove to the cities and they transported the rawmaterials for industry Trains carried cattle toChicago and Kansas City making these citiesgreat meatpacking centers
Some cities flourished because of nearbyresources Pittsburgh developed rapidly as acenter for iron and steel manufacturing becauseboth iron ore and coalmdashto fuel the industryrsquoshuge furnacesmdashwere found in the area
Seaports such as New York and San Franciscodeveloped as American trade with the rest of theworld increased In addition the immigrant pop-ulation of these cities provided a large pool ofworkers who were available for low wages
Tenement LivingCities were exciting places that offered jobs
stores and entertainment But there was alsosubstandard housing and desperate povertyPeople poured into the cities faster than housingcould be built to accommodate them In the
biggest most crowded cities the poorest resi-dentsmdashincluding most immigrantsmdashlived intenements Originally a tenement was simply abuilding in which several families rented roomsBy the late 1800s however a tenement had cometo mean an apartment building in the slumsmdashpoor run-down urban neighborhoods
Tenements had many small dark rooms Oneyoung immigrant from Poland spoke of living inthe dimly lit rooms in the back of a New YorkCity tenement
ldquoWe would so like to live in the front but wecanrsquot pay the rent Why they have the sun inthere When the door is opened the light comesright in your facerdquo
Three four or more people lived in each roomUsually several families had to share a cold-watertap and a toilet Few tenement houses had hotwater or bathtubs A government inspector wroteof the ldquofilthy and rotten tenementsrdquo of theChicago slums in 1896 where children filledldquoevery nook eating and sleeping in every win-dowsill pouring in and out of every doorrdquo
Urban and Rural PopulationGrowth 1860ndash1900
Source Historical Statistics of the United States
Popu
latio
n (in
mill
ions
)
1860 1870 1880 1890 1900
50
40
30
20
10
0
Year
RuralUrban
The gap between the urban and rural populationsnarrowed in the late 1800s
Comparing About how many more people livedin urban areas in 1900 than in 1860
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Middle-Class ComfortThe cities also had a growing middle class
The middle class included the families of profes-sional people such as doctors lawyers and min-isters An increasing number of managers andsalaried office clerks also became part of themiddle class
The middle class enjoyed a comfortable lifeMany families moved from cities to the suburbsresidential areas that sprang up outside of citycenters as a result of improvements in trans-portation There they lived in houses with hotwater indoor toilets andmdashby 1900mdashelectricityMiddle-class families might have one or twoservants and the leisure time to enjoy music artand literature
The Gilded AgeAt the top of the economic and social ladder
stood the very rich The wealthy lived very dif-ferent lives from most Americans They builtenormous mansions in the cities and hugeestates in the country Some homes such asthose of JP Morgan and Henry Clay Frick inNew York City are now museums
In these mansions the rich lived lives ofextreme luxury throwing enormous partiesand dinners In 1883 Alva and William KissamVanderbilt gave a party for more than 1000guests at their New York mansion The partywas estimated to have cost $75000 for food andentertainment which is equal to about $13 mil-lion today
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner pub-lished a novel in 1873 called The Gilded Age Thenamemdashwhich refers to something covered witha thin layer of goldmdashbecame associated withAmerica of the late 1800s The Gilded Age sug-gested both the extravagant wealth of the timeand the terrible poverty that lay underneath
Describing Why was tenement living difficult
Cities in CrisisThe rapid growth of the cities produced serious
problems The terrible overcrowding in tenementdistricts created sanitation and health problemsGarbage and horse manure accumulated in city
592 CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America
Jacob Riis came to theUnited States from Den-mark when he was 21Riis worked as a reporterand photographer forNew York City newspa-pers for 20 years Manyof his stories and picturescalled attention to the liv-ing conditions in thepoorer sections of thecity In 1890 Riis wroteHow the Other Half Lives
By taking pictures of thetenements Riis was ableto bring the terrible con-ditions of the slums tothe attention of readersHis book helped establishhousing codes to preventthe worst abuses
When Theodore Roosevelt became thecityrsquos police commis-sioner he asked Riis to present a reform
program Through Riisrsquosefforts many playgroundsand parks were estab-lished in the city Riishelped make othersaware of the problemsmany urban Americansfaced in their daily livesIn addition he served asan example of what indi-viduals could do to lessenthese problems
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streets and the sewers could not handle the flowof human waste Filth created a breeding groundfor diseases which spread rapidly through thecrowded districts
Fires were an ever-present threat About 18000buildings were destroyed and 100000 Chicagoanslost their homes in the Chicago fire of 1871 Twoyears later Boston experienced a devastating fire
Health and Crime ProblemsIn a poor Chicago neighborhood in 1900
babies often died of whooping cough diphthe-ria or measles before their first birthday A sec-tion of New York was called the ldquolung blockrdquobecause so many residents had tuberculosis
In an effort to control disease New York Citybegan to screen schoolchildren for contagiousdiseases and to provide visiting nurses to moth-ers with young children The city also estab-lished public health clinics for those who couldnot pay for medical care
The poverty in the cities inevitably led tocrime Orphaned and homeless children some-times resorted to picking pockets and otherminor crimes to survive Gangs roaming thepoor neighborhoods committed more seriouscrimes Jacob Riis reported
ldquoThe gang is an institution in New York Thepolice deny its existence while nursing thebruises received in nightly battles with it Thegang is the ripe fruit of tenement-house growthIt was born thererdquo
Seeking SolutionsThe problems of the cities did not go unno-
ticed Many dedicated people worked to improveurban life and help the poor
Religious groups aided the poor Some religious orders helped the poor in orphanagesprisons and hospitals Organizations such asthe YMCA (Young Menrsquos Christian Association)and YWCA (Young Womenrsquos Christian Associa-tion) offered recreation centers where cityyoungsters could meet and play
The poor also received assistance from estab-lishments called settlement houses The settle-ment house movement had spread to the
United States from Britain Located in poorneighborhoods settlement houses providedmedical care playgrounds nurseries andlibraries as well as classes in English musicand arts and crafts Settlement workersmdashmostly womenmdashalso tried to get better policeprotection garbage removal and public parksfor poor districts
One of the most famous settle-ment houses was ChicagorsquosHull House founded by JaneAddams in 1889 Addamsexplained
ldquoWe were ready toperform the humblestneighborhood servicesWe were asked to washthe new-born babies andto prepare the dead for bur-ial to nurse the sick and tolsquomind the childrenrsquordquo
Explaining What purpose did set-tlement houses serve
The Changing CityUrban growth led to important new develop-
ments In the late 1800s cities saw the introduc-tion of a new type of building new kinds ofpublic transportation and public parks
Building UpmdashNot OutBecause of the limited space in cities imagi-
native architects began building upward ratherthan outward In the 1860s architects started touse iron frames to strengthen the walls of build-ings Iron supportsmdashtogether with the safetyelevator that Elisha Otis invented in 1852mdashmade taller buildings possible
In 1884 William LeBaron Jenney con-structed a 10-story office building in ChicagoSupported by an iron-and-steel frame it wasthe worldrsquos first skyscraper Architect LouisSullivan gave style to the skyscraper ldquoIt mustbe every inch a proud and soaring thing rising
Jane Addams
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in sheer exultationrdquo he said Sullivan and hiscolleagues changed the face of Americarsquos citiesSoon people built even higher structures NewYorkrsquos Woolworth Building completed in1913 soared an incredible 55 storiesmdash792 feet(241 m) high People called the building theCathedral of Commerce
New DesignsSome people looked to reshape the urban
landscape A group known as the ldquoCity Beauti-fulrdquo movement believed city dwellers should beable to enjoy the beauties of nature FrederickLaw Olmsted a leader in this movementdesigned New Yorkrsquos Central Park as well asseveral parks in Boston
In 1892 and 1893 Chicago hosted a WorldrsquosFair on fairgrounds designed by Olmsted TheFair revealed that American architecture wasdynamic and original The best architects thoroughly understood European styles andadapted them for modern use The firm of
McKim Mead and White used the ItalianRenaissance style in its design for the BostonPublic Library Henry Richardson adaptedstyles from ancient Rome in his design forchurches libraries and even department stores
New Forms of TransportationAs cities grew people needed new means
of transportation Mark Twain complained in1867 that
ldquoNew York is too large You cannot accom-plish anything without devoting a whole dayto it The distances are too greatrdquo
Streetcars which horses pulled on tracks pro-vided public transportation at the time Horseswere slow however and left piles of manure In 1873 San Francisco began construction ofcable-car lines A large underground cable powered by a motor at one end of the rail linemoved passengers along In 1888 Richmond
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The Woolworth building was designed and built to be the tallest building in the world
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Virginia pioneered the use of the trolley car amotorized train that was powered by electricitysupplied through overhead cables By the turnof the century the trolley was everywhere In1897 Boston opened the nationrsquos first subwayor underground railway In 1904 New York Cityopened the first section of what was to becomethe largest subway system in the world
Another improvement that helped trans-portation was the paving of streets During mostof the 1800s city streets remained poorly pavedFor example although the rapid growth ofCleveland Ohio made that city an importanturban center most of its streets were nothingmore than sand and gravel Other cities usedwood blocks brick or cobblestone all of whichwere bumpy noisy and hard to repair Thegrowing use of asphaltmdasha by-product of petro-leum refiningmdashbeginning in the 1890s made citystreets smoother and quieter
Building BridgesBridge construction provided another
improvement in urban transportation ManyAmerican cities were divided or bounded byrivers Using new construction technologyarchitects and engineers designed huge steelbridges to link sections of cities The 520-foot(156-m) Eads Bridge across the MississippiRiver in St Louis opened in 1874 Ten years later
New Yorkrsquos majestic Brooklyn Bridge 1600 feet(488 m) long connected Manhattan and Brook-lyn Both bridges remain in use today
The new forms of transportation not onlyhelped people travel within the cities but theyalso helped the cities grow Middle-class sub-urbs developed along train or trolley linesstretching away from city centers People whomoved out of the city centers could easily traveldowntown to work or shop
The increase in immigration and the growthof the cities went hand in hand with otherchanges in American life Education cultureand recreation were changing too
Summarizing What new forms ofurban transportation were developed
Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Use the vocabulary
terms that follow to write a paragraph about life in the cities tenement slum suburb settle-ment house
2 Reviewing Facts Who founded Hull House
Reviewing Themes3 Science and Technology What
improvements in transportationhelped cities and suburbs grow
Critical Thinking4 Analyzing Information How did the
efforts of religious groups help thoseliving in poverty
5 Summarizing Information Re-createthe diagram below and describethree efforts made to improve livingconditions in the cities
Analyzing Visuals6 Graph Skills According to the graph
on page 591 what was the range ofurban population between 1890 and1900 About how many more peoplelived in rural than in urban areas in1860
CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America 595
Art Draw the front of a postcardthat shows a scene of an Americancity in 1900 On the reverse sidewrite a note that an immigrant mayhave sent home to relatives
Improving city life
The Empire State Building is the worldrsquos tallest building That was once true but no longer By 1931 theEmpire State Building dwarfed all other buildings in theworld at 102 stories Today the nationrsquos tallest building isthe Sears Tower in Chicago It is 1450 feet (442 m) highand has 110 stories
Skyscrapers
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Reading a Line GraphWhy Learn This Skill
Graphs are a way of showing numbers visuallymaking them easier to read and understand Graphsare often used to compare changes over time or dif-ferences between places groups of people orrelated events
Learning the SkillOn a line graph numbers usually appear along the
left side of the graph or the vertical axis Time isusually shown along the bottom of the graph or thehorizontal axis A line on the graph shows whetherthe numbers go up or down over time Sometimes agraph contains more than one line to record two ormore related quantities
To read a line graph follow these stepsbull Read the title of the graphbull Read the information on the horizontal axis and
the vertical axisbull Study the points where the line intersects the grid
on the line graph This step tells you whatamount existed at a given time
bull Study the changes over time that the line on thegraph illustrates Look for increases decreasesand sudden shifts
bull Draw conclusions from the statistics presentedWhat trends or patterns appear
Practicing the SkillStudy the line graph on this page and answer thefollowing questions
1 What is the subject of this line graph
2 What information is presented on the horizontalaxis On the vertical axis
3 In about what year did immigration from north-ern and western Europe peak
4 In about what year was immigration from AsiaAfrica and South America the lowest
5 During what two decades did immigration fromsouthern and eastern Europe peak
Social StudiesSocial Studies
Immigration to theUnited States 1860ndash1920
Source US Bureau of the Census Historical Statistics of the United StatesColonial Times to 1970 Bicentennial Edition Washington DC
Imm
igra
nts ndash
by
area
of o
rigin
(in
thou
sand
s)
1880 18901860 1870
Northern andWestern Europe
Southern andEastern Europe
Asia AfricaSouth America
1900 1910 1920
500
600
700
800
900
1000
400
300
200
100
0
Year
Applying the SkillMaking a Line Graph Keep track of the numberof hours you spend on homework each day for aone-week period Chart the information on a line graph
Glencoersquos Skillbuilder InteractiveWorkbook CD-ROM Level 1 providesinstruction and practice in key social studies skills
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1862Morrill Act is passed
1879Carlisle IndianIndustrial School is founded
1881Booker T Washingtonopens the TuskegeeInstitute
1883Joesph Pulitzer purchases the New York World
Main IdeaThe states worked to expand andimprove the system of education
Key Termsland-grant college yellow journal-ism realism regionalism ragtime vaudeville
Reading StrategyClassifying Information As youstudy Section 3 re-create the diagrambelow and describe the achievementsof the persons listed
Read to Learnbull how education became more
widely availablebull how Americans spent their leisure
time
Section ThemeContinuity and Change A distinctiveAmerican culture was developing thataffected many parts of American life
A Changing Culture
CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America
Mary Antin a young girl who came to the United States from Russia in 1894 neverforgot her first day of school ldquoFather himself conducted us to school He would nothave delegated that mission to the president of the United Statesrdquo For her father Mary explained education was ldquothe essence of American opportunity the treasure nothief could touch not even misfortune or poverty The door stood open for everyone of usrdquo
Expanding EducationMost Americans in 1865 had attended school for an average of only four
years Government and business leaders and reformers believed that for thenation to progress the people needed more schooling Toward the end of the1800s the ldquotreasurerdquo of education became more widely available to Americans
By 1914 most states required children to have at least some schooling Morethan 80 percent of all children between the ages of 5 and 17 were enrolled in ele-mentary and secondary schools
A studentrsquos award
Achievements
John Dewey
George Washington Carver
Mary Cassatt
Scott JoplinPreview of Events
Guide to Reading
1860 1870 1880 1890
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Public SchoolsThe expansion of public education was
particularly notable in high schools Thenumber of public high schools increased from100 in 1860 to 6000 in 1900 and increased to12000 in 1914 Despite this huge increasehowever many teenagers did not attend highschool Boys often went to work to help theirfamilies instead of attending school Themajority of high school students were girls
The benefits of a public school educationwere not shared equally by everyone In theSouth many African Americans received littleor no education In many parts of the countryAfrican American children had no choice butto attend segregated elementary and second-ary schools
Progressive EducationAround 1900 a new philosophy of educa-
tion emerged in the United States Supportersof this ldquoprogressive educationrdquo wanted toshape studentsrsquo characters and teachthem good citizenship as well as factsThey also believed children shouldlearn through the use of ldquohands-onrdquoactivities These ideas had the greatesteffect in elementary schools
John Dewey the leading spokes-person for progressive educationcriticized schools for overemphasizingmemorization of information InsteadDewey argued schools should relatelearning to the interests problems andconcerns of students
Higher EducationColleges and universities also changed and
expanded An 1862 law called the Morrill Actgave the states large amounts of federal landthat could be sold to raise money for educationThe states used these funds to start dozens ofschools called land-grant colleges Wealthyindividuals also established and supported col-leges and universities Some schools werenamed for the donorsmdashfor example CornellUniversity for Ezra Cornell and Stanford Uni-versity for Leland Stanford
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Women and Higher EducationIn 1865 only a handful of American colleges
admitted women The new land-grant schoolsadmitted women students as did new womenrsquoscollegesmdashVassar Smith Wellesley and BrynMawrmdashfounded in the late 1800s By 1890women could attend a wide range of schoolsand by 1910 almost 40 percent of all Americancollege students were women
598
School DaysOn the BusStudents line up for a ride to school in Fresno Cali-fornia Few schools were lucky enough to have theirown buses in the early 1900s Not until 1939 werenational standards for school buses adopted includ-ing the color ldquoschool-bus yellowrdquo to promote visibilityand safety
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One Hampton Institute student Booker TWashington became an educator In 1881 Wash-ington founded the Tuskegee Institute inAlabama to train teachers and to provide practicaleducation for African Americans As a result of hiswork as an educator and public speaker Wash-ington became influential in business and politics
In 1896 scientist George Washington Carverjoined the Tuskegee faculty His research trans-formed agricultural development in the SouthFrom the peanut which was formerly of littleuse Carver developed hundreds of productsincluding plastics synthetic rubber shavingcream and paper
Minorities and Higher EducationSome new colleges such as Hampton Insti-
tute in Virginia provided higher education forAfrican Americans and Native AmericansHoward University in Washington DCfounded shortly after the Civil War had alargely African American student body By theearly 1870s Howard offered degrees in theol-ogy medicine law and agriculture Prominentgraduates of Howard include Thurgood Mar-shall who later became a justice of the SupremeCourt writer Toni Morrison and political scien-tist Ralph Bunche the first African American towin the Nobel Peace Prize
Elementary StudentsThe classroom was the major place whereimmigrant children learned American ways
The ClassroomStudents observe an experi-ment and take notes duringscience class in 1900
WritingBy 1900 the Palmer method of penmanshipwas taught everywhere In the Palmermethod some capital letters were nolonger written separately and entire words could be completed before the pen was lifted to cross a ldquotrdquo or dot an ldquoirdquoWriting sets included ink bottles like thisone Its double covers prevented evapora-tion and protected against leakage
Crossing GuardA New York City police officer guidesstudents on their way to school in 1899By the early 1900s the police providedthis service in many communities
BookmobileLibrarians attempted to provide readingmaterial to rural communities Here atraveling library makes book deliveriesin Washington County Maryland
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CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America
Schools for Native AmericansReservation schools and boarding schools
also opened to train Native Americans for jobsThe Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Penn-sylvania was founded in 1879 and similarschools opened in the West Although theseschools provided Native Americans with train-ing for jobs in industry they also isolated NativeAmericans from their tribal traditions Some-times boarding schools were located hundredsof miles away from a studentrsquos family
Comparing What did the collegesBryn Mawr Vassar and Smith have in common
A Nation of ReadersAs opportunities for education grew a grow-
ing number of Americans became interested inreading Public libraries opened across thenation and new magazines and newspaperswere created for the reading public
Public LibrariesIn 1881 Andrew Carnegie the wealthy steel
industrialist made an extraordinary announce-ment He pledged to build a public library inany city that would agree to pay its operatingcosts In the next 30 years Carnegie donatedmore than $30 million to found more than 2000libraries throughout the world With gifts fromCarnegie and others and the efforts of state andlocal governments every state in the Unionestablished free public libraries
Spreading the NewsTechnological advances in printing paper
making and communications made it possibleto publish a daily paper for a large number ofreaders The growing cities provided readers forthe newspapers
In 1883 Joseph Pulitzer purchased the NewYork World and created a new kind of newspaperThe paper grabbed the readerrsquos attention withillustrations cartoons and sensational storieswith huge scary headlinesmdashsuch as ldquoANOTHERMURDERER TO HANGrdquo Under Pulitzerrsquos man-agement the World built up its circulation to morethan one million readers every day
Other newspapers soon imitated Pulitzerrsquosstyle William Randolph Hearstrsquos New YorkMorning Journal became even more successfulthan the World attracting readers by exaggeratingthe dramatic or gruesome aspects of stories Thisstyle of sensational writing became known as yel-low journalismmdasha name that came from thepaperrsquos popular comic strip ldquoThe Yellow Kidrdquo
Ethnic and minority newspapers thrived aswell By 1900 there were six daily Jewish-language newspapers operating in New YorkCity African Americans started more than 1000newspapers between 1865 and 1900
More magazines took advantage of printingimprovements and mass circulation techniques to reach a national market Between 1865 and1900 the number of magazines in the UnitedStates rose from about 700 to 5000 Some mag-azines of that eramdashthe Atlantic MonthlyHarperrsquos Magazine and Ladiesrsquo Home Journalmdashare still published today
Changes in LiteratureMany writers of the era explored new themes
and subjects Their approach to literature wascalled realism because they sought to describethe lives of people Related to realism wasregionalism writing that focused on a particu-lar region of the country
Mark Twain was a realist and a regionalistMany of his books including Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn and The Adventures of TomSawyer are set along the Mississippi Riverwhere Twain grew up
600
These two photographs of ayoung Navajo Tom Torlinoshow how his appearance changeda short time after he entered the Carlisle Indian School
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Stephen Crane wrote about city slums inMaggie and about the Civil War in The Red Badgeof Courage In books such as The Call of the Wildand The Sea Wolf Jack London portrayed thelives of miners and hunters in the far NorthwestEdith Wharton described the joys and sorrowsof the upper-class Easterners in The House ofMirth and The Age of Innocence
Paul Laurence Dunbar the son of formerslaves wrote poetry and novels that used thedialects and folktales of Southern AfricanAmericans Dunbar was one of the first AfricanAmerican writers to gain fame worldwide
Paperback books appeared for the first time inthe late 1800s and these inexpensive bookshelped expand the reading public Many paper-backs featured lively adventure tales or storiesof athletic boys and girls
Horatio Alger wrote a successful series ofyoung adult books with such titles as Work andWin and Luck and Pluck Based on the idea thathard work and honesty brought success Algerrsquosbooks sold millions of copies
Explaining What is regionalism
Art Music and LeisureFor most of the 1800s the work of American
artists and musicians reflected a European influ-ence After the Civil War Americans began todevelop a distinctively American style
American ArtistsSome American painters pursued realist
themes Thomas Eakins painted the humananatomy and surgical operations One ofEakinsrsquos students Henry Tanner depicted warmfamily scenes of African Americans in the SouthFrederic Remington portrayed the AmericanWest focusing on subjects such as cowhands andNative Americans Winslow Homer paintedSouthern farmers Adirondack campers andstormy sea scenes James Whistlerrsquos Arrange-ment in Grey and Black commonly known asldquoWhistlerrsquos Motherrdquo is one of the best-knownAmerican paintings Mary Cassatt was influen-tial in the French Impressionist school of
CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America
painting Impressionists tried to capture the playof light color and patterns as they made imme-diate impressions on the senses
Music in AmericaMore distinctively American kinds of music
were also becoming popular Bandleader JohnPhilip Sousa composed many rousing marchesincluding ldquoThe Stars and Stripes ForeverrdquoAfrican American musicians in New Orleans inthe late 1800s developed an entirely new kind ofmusicmdashjazz Jazz combined elements of worksongs gospel music spirituals and Africanrhythms Related to jazz was ragtime music Forabout 20 years beginning around the turn of thecentury ragtimemdashwith its complex rhythmsmdashwas the dominant force in popular music Oneof the best-known ragtime composers is ScottJoplin He wrote ldquoMaple Leaf Ragrdquo and manyother well-known works
The symphony orchestras of New York Bostonand Philadelphiamdashall founded before 1900mdashwere among the worldrsquos finest Great singers andconductors came from all over the world to per-form at New Yorkrsquos Metropolitan Opera House
Leisure TimeAlthough sweatshop workers labored long
hours for six or even seven days a week middle-class people and even some factory workersenjoyed increasing amounts of leisure time
Girls with Lobster by Winslow Homer Homer paintedscenes of people enjoying the New Jersey and NewEngland seashores What themes did many Ameri-can painters represent in their works
History Through Art
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Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Use each of these terms
in a complete sentence that will helpexplain its meaning land-grant col-lege yellow journalism realismregionalism ragtime vaudeville
2 Reviewing Facts Summarize thenew philosophy of education thatemerged around 1900
Reviewing Themes3 Continuity and Change What
sparked an increase in the number ofnewspapers magazines and booksin the late 1800s
Critical Thinking4 Determining Cause and Effect
Explain the connection betweenleisure time and the development of the arts
5 Analyzing Information Re-createthe diagram below and describe thework of each of these writers
Analyzing Visuals6 Picturing History Look at the pic-
tures of classrooms that appear inthe section In what ways are theysimilar to and in what ways are theydifferent from classrooms today
Unlike round-the-clock farmwork professionaland industrial jobs gave people hours and evendays of free time Americans developed newforms of recreation
A favorite leisure-time activity for manypeople was watching and following sportsBaseball became the most popular spectatorsport in America By the turn of the centuryboth the National and American Leagues hadbeen foundedmdasheach made up of teams frommajor cities Their games drew large crowds ofenthusiastic fans and in 1903 the first WorldSeries was held
Another popular spectator sport was footballwhich developed from the English game ofrugby By the 1890s college games were drawinghuge crowds
Basketball invented by Dr James Naismith ofSpringfield Massachusetts also became popu-lar Naismith developed the game in the 1890s asan indoor winter sport for the boys in his YMCAphysical education classes Considered the onlymajor sport that is completely American in ori-gin basketball soon spread to other countries
Americans not only watched but also partici-pated in sports Tennis and golf were enjoyed bythe wealthy usually in exclusive private clubsBicycling grew in popularity after the ldquosafetyrdquobicycle was developed Older bicycles had
metal-rimmed wheelsmdasha large one in front anda small one in backmdashwhile the new ones hadtwo air-filled rubber tires of the same size
These improvements helped bicycle ridingtake the country by storm One romantic songcelebrated the bicycle
ldquoIt wonrsquot be a stylish marriageI canrsquot afford a carriageBut yoursquoll look sweet on the seat of a
bicycle built for twordquoLarge cities had many theaters Plays per-
formed ranged from serious dramas by Shake-speare to vaudeville shows which were varietyshows with dancing singing comedy andmagic acts Many people could afford the priceof a ticket and in the early 1900s vaudevilleoffered the most popular shows in town Thecircus also attracted large crowds In 1910 theUnited States had about 80 traveling circuses
Thomas Edison invented ldquomoving picturesrdquoin the 1880s The ldquomoviesrdquo soon became enor-mously popular Some theaters called nick-elodeons charged five cents to see short filmsThe nickelodeons were the beginning of todayrsquosfilm industry
Describing What elements madeup jazz music
602 CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America
Art Create your own moving pic-tures by making a series of draw-ings (that build on one another) on2-inch by 4-inch slips of paper Sta-ple the slips of paper together onone side then flip through themslowly to view your motion picture
Writer Description of work
Horatio Alger
Stephen Crane
Edith Wharton
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CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America
see
When I was a boy therewas but one permanentambition among my
comrades in our village on the westbank of the Mississippi River Thatwas to be a steamboatman
Once a day a cheap gaudypacket arrived upward from StLouis and another downward fromKeokuk Before these events theday was glorious with expectancyafter them the day was a dead andempty thing Not only the boys butthe whole village felt this After allthese years I can picture that oldtime to myself now just as it wasthen the white town drowsing inthe sunshine of a summerrsquos morn-ing the streets empty the mag-nificent Mississippi rolling itsmile-wide tide along shining in thesun Presently a film of darksmoke appears instantly a drayman famous for his quick eyeand prodigious voice lifts up thecry ldquoS-t-e-a-m-boat a-cominrsquordquo andthe scene changes [A]ll in atwinkling the dead town is aliveand moving Drays carts menboys all go hurrying from manyquarters to a common center thewharf Assembled there the peoplefasten their eyes upon the comingboat as upon a wonder they are see-ing for the first time And the boat israther a handsome sight too [T]he captain stands by the big bell
calm imposing the envy of allgreat volumes of the blackestsmoke are rolling and tumbling outof the chimneys the captain liftshis hand a bell rings the wheelsstop then they turn back churningthe water to foam and the steameris at rest Then such a scramble asthere is to get aboard and to getashore and to take in freight and todischarge freight all at one and thesame time Tenminutes later thesteamer is underway again withno flag on thejack-staff and no black smokeissuing fromthe chimneysAfter ten moreminutes thetown is deadagain
Life on the MississippiMark Twain (1835ndash1910)Mark Twainwho was bornSamuel Lang-horne Clemensin 1835 spenthis early life inHannibal Mis-
souri There he became aprinter and later a riverboatpilot So much did he love lifeon the Mississippi River that helater chose a pen name thatwould link him with the riverforever ldquoMark twainrdquo was ariver call meaning ldquotwo fath-omsrdquo or that the water wasdeep enough for safe passage
READ TO DISCOVERMark Twainrsquos boyhood dreamsand memories are the sourcesof Life on the Mississippi Asyou read this excerpt thinkabout the importance of theriverboatrsquos arrival to the townand to young Twain
READERrsquoS DICTIONARYpacket boat that carries mail
passengers and freight atfixed times over a fixed route
Keokuk town at the south-eastern tip of Iowa
drayman driver of a draymdashalow sturdy cart with remov-able sides
603
ANALYZING LITERATURE1 Recall and Interpret What
major event takes place once a day
2 Evaluate and Connect Why is the event so important
Interdisciplinary ActivityArt Read again Twainrsquos descriptionsThen draw a picture of one of thesescenes Be sure to add details thatreflect Twainrsquos words
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604
Reviewing Key TermsOn a sheet of paper define the following terms1 ethnic group 4 yellow journalism2 tenement 5 ragtime3 settlement house 6 assimilate
Reviewing Key Facts7 What did nativist groups try to do8 What was the purpose of the Morrill Act9 What project did Andrew Carnegie fund
Critical Thinking10 Analyzing Information What new styles of writing
did American authors adopt during this period11 Drawing Conclusions Re-create the diagram below
and describe three ways newcomers to America triedto preserve their culture
Practicing SkillsReading a Line Graph Study the line graph below andanswer the questions that follow12 What was the average number of school days in 192013 What trend is shown in this line graph
Toward an Urban America
Cities grow as immigrants and people from rural areas move
to them
An Urban America was replacing a
rural one
Transportation improvements allowed
families to live in suburbs
Cities grewupward as spacebecame limited
Problems in cities included overcrowding
crime and public health dangers
UrbanAmerica
Preserving cultural heritage
Length of School Year 1880ndash1920
Source Department of Education
Aver
age
num
ber o
f day
sat
tend
ed p
er y
ear
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920
130
120
110
100
90
80
Year
Limited housing in crowded cities meant many lived
in tenements
Self-Check QuizVisit tajglencoecom and click on Chapter 20mdashSelf-Check Quizzes to prepare for the chapter test
HISTORY
CHAPTER 20 Toward an Urban America 605
Read the passage about American life and choosethe best answer to the question that follows
ldquoBetween 1860 and 1900 American urban areasgrew twice as fast as the total population Chicagowhich in the 1830s had been a frontier town with afew hundred residents became a vast metropolisNew York became the second-largest city in theworld During the same span of years the popula-tions of Boston Baltimore and Philadelphia alsogrew rapidlyrdquo
The main idea of the passage is best expressed by
A New York City grew rapidly B Only cities in the northeastern United States
grew rapidlyC Population of urban America grew at a very fast
rate during this eraD Rural growth continued but not as quickly as
urban growth
Test-Taking Tip
Make sure that your answer is supported by informationin the quotation Do not rely only on your memory
Keep in mind that a metropolis is a ldquolarge cityrdquo
Standardized Test Practice
Geography and History ActivityStudy this map and answer the questions below
14 Location Which cities had more than 500000 people15 Place About how many people lived in Louisville16 Location What do the cities with more than 500000
people have in common
Citizenship Cooperative Activity17 Citizenship Test Immigrants who want to become
United States citizens today must pass a written test toqualify Many of the questions on the test deal withUnited States history and customs Work with membersof your group to design a 15-question test that you thinkprospective citizens should be required to pass
Economics Activity18 Research for information and then summarize your find-
ings in a short report that answers these questions Whatfield or career area interests you What education andskills are required to enter it What attitudes work habitsand other qualities does it take to succeed on the job
Alternative Assessment19 Portfolio Writing Activity Choose one problem of
the early 1900s and describe what you would do to help correct it
N
S
EW
500 kilometers0Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
500 miles0
80degW
30degN
90degW
Atlantic
Ocean
CANADA
St Paul
Milwaukee
Chicago
St Louis
Memphis
New Orleans
Louisville
Cincinnati
Toledo
Columbus
Cleveland
BuffaloRochester
Pittsburgh
Scranton
Washington DCBaltimore
PhiladelphiaJersey CityNew York City
Newark
New Haven
Syracuse
Worcester
Boston
Providence
Fall River
Detroit
Indianapolis
Minneapolis
100000ndash500000 peopleMore than 500000 people
Largest Eastern Cities in Population 1900
- The American JourneymdashIllinois Edition
-
- Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science
- How Does The American Journey Help Me Learn the Standards
- How Does The American Journey Help Me Test My Knowledge of Social Science
- The Illinois Constitution A Summary
- Table of Contents
-
- Previewing Your Textbook
- Scavenger Hunt
- How Do I Study History
- The Structure of Illinois Government
- Constitution Test Practice
- Reading Skills Handbook
-
- Identifying Words and Building Vocabulary
- Reading for a Reason
- Understanding What You Read
- Thinking About Your Reading
- Understanding Text Structure
- Reading for Research
-
- National Geographic Reference Atlas
-
- United States Political
- United States Physical
- United States Territorial Growth
- North America Physical
- North America Political
- Middle East PhysicalPolitical
- World Political
- United States Facts
-
- Geography Handbook
-
- What Is Geography
- How Do I Study Geography
- How Do I Use Maps
- How Does Geography Influence History
- Geographic Dictionary
-
- Be an Active Reader
- Unit 1 Different Worlds Meet Beginnings to 1625
-
- Chapter 1 The First Americans Prehistory to 1492
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- Section 1 Early Peoples
- Section 2 Cities and Empires
- Section 3 North American Peoples
- Chapter 1 Assessment and Activities
-
- Chapter 2 Exploring the Americas 1400ndash1625
-
- Section 1 A Changing World
- Section 2 Early Exploration
- Section 3 Spain in America
- Section 4 Exploring North America
- Chapter 2 Assessment and Activities
-
- Unit 2 Colonial Settlement 1587ndash1770
-
- Chapter 3 Colonial America 1587ndash1770
-
- Section 1 Early English Settlements
- Section 2 New England Colonies
- Section 3 Middle Colonies
- Section 4 Southern Colonies
- Chapter 3 Assessment and Activities
-
- Chapter 4 The Colonies Grow 1607ndash1770
-
- Section 1 Life in the Colonies
- Section 2 Government Religion and Culture
- Section 3 France and Britain Clash
- Section 4 The French and Indian War
- Chapter 4 Assessment and Activities
-
- Unit 3 Creating a Nation 1763ndash1791
-
- Chapter 5 Road to Independence 1763ndash1776
-
- Section 1 Taxation Without Representation
- Section 2 Building Colonial Unity
- Section 3 A Call to Arms
- Section 4 Moving Toward Independence
- The Declaration of Independence
- Chapter 5 Assessment and Activities
-
- Chapter 6 The American Revolution 1776ndash1783
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- Section 1 The Early Years
- Section 2 The War Continues
- Section 3 The War Moves West and South
- Section 4 The War Is Won
- Chapter 6 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 7 A More Perfect Union 1777ndash1790
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- Section 1 The Articles of Confederation
- Section 2 Convention and Compromise
- Section 3 A New Plan of Government
- Chapter 7 Assessment and Activities
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- Civics in Action A Citizenship Handbook
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- Section 1 The Constitution
- Section 2 The Federal Government
- Section 3 Citizens Rights and Responsibilities
- Handbook Assessment
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- The Constitution of the United States
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- Unit 4 The New Republic 1789ndash1825
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- Chapter 8 A New Nation 1789ndash1800
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- Section 1 The First President
- Section 2 Early Challenges
- Section 3 The First Political Parties
- Chapter 8 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 9 The Jefferson Era 1800ndash1816
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- Section 1 The Republicans Take Power
- Section 2 The Louisiana Purchase
- Section 3 A Time of Conflict
- Section 4 The War of 1812
- Chapter 9 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 10 Growth and Expansion 1790ndash1825
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- Section 1 Economic Growth
- Section 2 Westward Bound
- Section 3 Unity and Sectionalism
- Chapter 10 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 5 The Growing Nation 1820ndash1860
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- Chapter 11 The Jackson Era 1824ndash1845
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- Section 1 Jacksonian Democracy
- Section 2 Conflicts Over Land
- Section 3 Jackson and the Bank
- Chapter 11 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 12 Manifest Destiny 1818ndash1853
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- Section 1 The Oregon Country
- Section 2 Independence for Texas
- Section 3 War with Mexico
- Section 4 New Settlers in California and Utah
- Chapter 12 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 13 North and South 1820ndash1860
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- Section 1 The Norths Economy
- Section 2 The Norths People
- Section 3 Southern Cotton Kingdom
- Section 4 The Souths People
- Chapter 13 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 14 The Age of Reform 1820ndash1860
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- Section 1 Social Reform
- Section 2 The Abolitionists
- Section 3 The Womens Movement
- Chapter 14 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 6 Civil War and Reconstruction 1846ndash1896
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- Chapter 15 Road to Civil War 1820ndash1861
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- Section 1 Slavery and the West
- Section 2 A Nation Dividing
- Section 3 Challenges to Slavery
- Section 4 Secession and War
- Chapter 15 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 16 The Civil War 1861ndash1865
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- Section 1 The Two Sides
- Section 2 Early Years of the War
- Section 3 A Call for Freedom
- Section 4 Life During the Civil War
- Section 5 The Way to Victory
- Chapter 16 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 17 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 1865ndash1896
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- Section 1 Reconstruction Plans
- Section 2 Radicals in Control
- Section 3 The South During Reconstruction
- Section 4 Change in the South
- Chapter 17 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 7 Reshaping the Nation 1858ndash1914
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- Chapter 18 The Western Frontier 1858ndash1896
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- Section 1 The Mining Booms
- Section 2 Ranchers and Farmers
- Section 3 Native American Struggles
- Section 4 Farmers in Protest
- Chapter 18 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 19 The Growth of Industry 1865ndash1914
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- Section 1 Railroads Lead the Way
- Section 2 Inventions
- Section 3 An Age of Big Business
- Section 4 Industrial Workers
- Chapter 19 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 20 Toward an Urban America 1865ndash1914
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- Section 1 The New Immigrants
- Section 2 Moving to the City
- Section 3 A Changing Culture
- Chapter 20 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 8 Reform Expansion and War 1865ndash1920
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- Chapter 21 Progressive Reforms 1877ndash1920
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- Section 1 The Progressive Movement
- Section 2 Women and Progressives
- Section 3 Progressive Presidents
- Section 4 Excluded from Reform
- Chapter 21 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 22 Overseas Expansion 1865ndash1917
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- Section 1 Expanding Horizons
- Section 2 Imperialism in the Pacific
- Section 3 Spanish-American War
- Section 4 Latin American Policies
- Chapter 22 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 23 World War I 1914ndash1919
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- Section 1 War in Europe
- Section 2 Americas Road to War
- Section 3 Americans Join the Allies
- Section 4 The War at Home
- Section 5 Searching for Peace
- Chapter 23 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 9 Turbulent Decades 1919ndash1945
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- Chapter 24 The Jazz Age 1919ndash1929
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- Section 1 Time of Turmoil
- Section 2 Desire for Normalcy
- Section 3 A Booming Economy
- Section 4 The Roaring Twenties
- Chapter 24 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 25 The Depression and FDR 1929ndash1941
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- Section 1 The Great Depression
- Section 2 Roosevelts New Deal
- Section 3 Life During the Depression
- Section 4 Effects of the New Deal
- Chapter 25 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 26 World War II 1939ndash1945
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- Section 1 Road to War
- Section 2 War Begins
- Section 3 On the Home Front
- Section 4 War in Europe and Africa
- Section 5 War in the Pacific
- Chapter 26 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 10 Turning Points 1945ndash1975
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- Chapter 27 The Cold War Era 1945ndash1954
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- Section 1 Cold War Origins
- Section 2 Postwar Politics
- Section 3 The Korean War
- Section 4 The Red Scare
- Chapter 27 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 28 America in the 1950s 1953ndash1960
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- Section 1 Eisenhower in the White House
- Section 2 1950s Prosperity
- Section 3 Problems in a Time of Plenty
- Chapter 28 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 29 The Civil Rights Era 1954ndash1973
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- Section 1 The Civil Rights Movement
- Section 2 Kennedy and Johnson
- Section 3 The Struggle Continues
- Section 4 Other Groups Seek Rights
- Chapter 29 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 30 The Vietnam Era 1960ndash1975
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- Section 1 Kennedys Foreign Policy
- Section 2 War in Vietnam
- Section 3 The Vietnam Years at Home
- Section 4 Nixon and Vietnam
- Chapter 30 Assessment and Activities
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- Unit 11 Modern America 1968ndashPresent
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- Chapter 31 Search for Stability 1968ndash1981
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- Section 1 Nixons Foreign Policy
- Section 2 Nixon and Watergate
- Section 3 The Carter Presidency
- Chapter 31 Assessment and Activities
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- Chapter 32 New Challenges 1981ndashPresent
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- Section 1 The Reagan Presidency
- Section 2 The Bush Presidency
- Section 3 A New Century
- Section 4 The War on Terrorism
- Chapter 32 Assessment and Activities
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- Appendix
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- What Is an Appendix and How Do I Use One
- Primary Sources Library
- Presidents of the United States
- Documents of American History
- Supreme Court Case Summaries
- Gazetteer
- Glossary
- Spanish Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgements and Photo Credits
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- Feature Contents
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- Primary Sources Library
- Documents of Americas Heritage
- More Abouthellip
- What Life Was Likehellip
- National Geographic Geography amp History
- Americas Literature
- Two Viewpoints
- Technology and History
- Linking Past amp Present
- What Ifhellip
- Hands-On History Lab Activity
- TIME Notebook
- Why It Matters
- Causes and Effects
- SkillBuilder
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- Critical Thinking
- Social Studies
- Study amp Writing
- Technology
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- People In History
- Fact Fiction Folklore
- Primary Source Quotes
- Charts amp Graphs
- Maps
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- Student Workbooks
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