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Chapter 26 America moves to city
Reason for growth of cities Louis Sullivan Transportation: trolleys City Neighborhoods: race, ethnicity, social class Department stores Mail order catalogues Apartments Design of cities Dumbbell tenements
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New immigrants Change of who is coming to U.S. in 1880’s
Why do they come to America? Little Italy, social clubs
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Reactions to the new immigrants
Boss Tweed Jane Adams (Hull House) settlement house Women’s role in movement Opportunities for women Nativism, American protective Association Law (1882) restricted criminals 1882: Chinese exclusion act
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Church reaction to cities
YMCA, YWCA Darwin and the church
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Education Public education Chautauqua movement
Private parochial schools Education for Blacks Booker T. Washington Education and economic equality WEB Dubois, NAACP New colleges: Stanford, Cornell, Vasser Medicine Growth of newspapers
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Other stuff Mark Twain and other authors Prohibition of alcohol
Ida B. Wells Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Nation Clara Barton Baseball, basketball, annie oakley, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, football, Boxing
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