1. 25 America Moves to the City 1865-1900

2. Essential Questions Outline both positive and negative reactions to the New Immigration. Describe how religious and intellectual trends were impacted by the broad forces of 'modernity.‘ Assess the causes and goals of calls for reform in this newly urbanized society. Describe trends in the arts and leisure at this period.

3. The Rise of the City

10. Cities were transformed in the late 19 th century because of technological advancements and immigration and migration to the cities.

11. Rule and Misrule in the Cities

13. Political machines could become corrupt, but they also helped the poor to have some political representation and answers to their needs

14. Discuss Did political machines’ good outweigh their bad? Were political machines and their corruption avoidable, or a part of the industrialization and capitalization of the US?

15. Strangers in the Land In millions

16. Strangers in the Land

18. Immigrants from Asia

19. Strangers in the Land Anti-immigrant sentiment grew with the number of people coming to the US, and Asian immigration was halted in part due to the economic downturn of the 1890s.

20. Discuss In what ways did immigrants benefit society? Were nativists’ concerns about immigrants baseless?

21. Women in Industrial Society

25. "Every kind of creature is developed by the exercise of its functions. If denied the exercise of its functions, it can not develop in the fullest degree." —Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman), from Hearing of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., January 28, 1896

26. Women’s Suffrage

29. The enfranchisement of women would ensure immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained

30. Women’s Suffrage Women, especially middle-class white women, found greater social freedom in the late 1800s. This will lead to increased social activism and women’s involvement in the Progressive movement of the 1900s. Women continued their struggle for suffrage, though they altered the rationale in response to society’s concerns about women voting.

31. Discuss Were advances in women’s rights a reflection of the changing times, or a natural progression from the Second Great Awakening? Evaluate the changing justifications that women presented in deserving the vote.

32. Social Classes

36. Distinct classes were created in American society in the late 1800s. Immigrants coming to the US significantly impacted the cultural fiber of the country. Life was difficult for the poor in America, but their lives were often better than their equivalent in other countries, and there was a greater chance of social mobility.

37. Reform Chart Gilded Age Problems Progressive Responses Specific Examples