1. 25 America Moves to the City

2. The Rise of the City

3. The Rise of the City

4. The Rise of the City

5. The Rise of the City

6. The Rise of the City

7. The Rise of the City

8. The Rise of the City

9. The Rise of the City
Cities were transformed in the late 19th century because of technological advancements and immigration and migration to the cities.

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11. Rule and Misrule in the Cities

12. Rule and Misrule in the Cities

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

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15. 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?

16. Strangers in the Land
In millions

17. Strangers in the Land

18. Strangers in the Land

19. Immigrants from Asia

20. 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.

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

23. Women in Industrial Society

24. Women in Industrial Society

25. Women in Industrial Society

26. Women in Industrial Society

27. Women in Industrial Society
"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

28. Women’s Suffrage

29. Women’s Suffrage

30. Women’s Suffrage

31. Women’s Suffrage
The enfranchisement of women would ensure immediate and durable white supremacy, honestly attained
1924: Belle Kearney of Madison County, MS, elected to State Senate

32. 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.

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34. Discuss
Were advances in women’s rights a reflection of the changing times, or a natural progression from the Second Great Awakening?
As women changed their reasoning for increased rights and the vote, is this wise or is it “selling out”?

35. Social Classes

36. Social Classes

37. Social Classes

38. Social Classes

39. Social Classes
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.

40. Booker T. Washington and WEB Du Bois

41. Booker T. Washington and WEB Du Bois
Two very different approaches to segregation and racism foreshadow the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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43. Discuss
Between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, whose methods do you feel would have received a better response from mainstream American society? Why? What did both men accomplish?