1. ESS THURSDAYS IN LIBRARY!
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Today
May 3rd
ESS THURSDAYS IN LIBRARY!
Agenda:
Flashbacks Review 1-4
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Movie/Questions
Tweet the Turn of the Century
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Objectives:
I can identify and evaluate the Gilded Age and its impact on American society.

2. Why did Nativists worry about an influx of immigrants during the 1880s?
The feared immigrants would gain control of city and state governments and encourage more immigration.
They believed immigrants would receive preferential treatment from the federal government and be given large tracts of land.
They thought the nation’s ports could not handle the increasing number of immigrants as well as an increasing amount of exported goods.
They considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe more difficult to assimilate into American culture than the older immigrants.

3. 2. What are tenements?
Poorly constructed and often run-down apartments that housed much of the urban poor.
Dangerous, dreary factories that employed large numbers of women and children.
A set of divine laws found in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Electric transformers that made the distribution of electricity safer and more efficient.

4. 3. One of the reasons that political machines gained power in the late 1800s was that they
provided for the needs of the suburbs.
provided jobs and other help for immigrants.
refused to accept graft as part of their income.
advocated political reform.

5. 4. This famous photojournalist awakened many Americans to the harsh living conditions of New York City’s urban poor with his famous 1890 book entitled How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
Mark Twain
Francis Benjamin Johnston
Brett Harte

6. Why did Nativists worry about an influx of immigrants during the 1880s?
The feared immigrants would gain control of city and state governments and encourage more immigration.
They believed immigrants would receive preferential treatment from the federal government and be given large tracts of land.
They thought the nation’s ports could not handle the increasing number of immigrants as well as an increasing amount of exported goods.
They considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe more difficult to assimilate into American culture than the older immigrants.

7. Why did Nativists worry about an influx of immigrants during the 1880s?
The feared immigrants would gain control of city and state governments and encourage more immigration.
They believed immigrants would receive preferential treatment from the federal government and be given large tracts of land.
They thought the nation’s ports could not handle the increasing number of immigrants as well as an increasing amount of exported goods.
They considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe more difficult to assimilate into American culture than the older immigrants.

8. 2. What are tenements?
Poorly constructed and often run-down apartments that housed much of the urban poor.
Dangerous, dreary factories that employed large numbers of women and children.
A set of divine laws found in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Electric transformers that made the distribution of electricity safer and more efficient.

9. 2. What are tenements?
Poorly constructed and often run-down apartments that housed much of the urban poor.
Dangerous, dreary factories that employed large numbers of women and children.
A set of divine laws found in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Electric transformers that made the distribution of electricity safer and more efficient.

10. 3. One of the reasons that political machines gained power in the late 1800s was that they
provided for the needs of the suburbs.
provided jobs and other help for immigrants.
refused to accept graft as part of their income.
advocated political reform.

11. 3. One of the reasons that political machines gained power in the late 1800s was that they
provided for the needs of the suburbs.
provided jobs and other help for immigrants.
refused to accept graft as part of their income.
advocated political reform.

12. 4. This famous photojournalist awakened many Americans to the harsh living conditions of New York City’s urban poor with his famous 1890 book entitled How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
Mark Twain
Francis Benjamin Johnston
Brett Harte

13. 4. This famous photojournalist awakened many Americans to the harsh living conditions of New York City’s urban poor with his famous 1890 book entitled How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
Mark Twain
Francis Benjamin Johnston
Brett Harte