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Monday, 14 November 2011

Essential Questions - Cities and Immigrants

Essential Questions

What were the factors that drew massive numbers of people to the United States from other countries?
What were the factors that caused people to leave their homelands in such large numbers?
How did the United States respond to massive immigration during this time period, including the government, citizens, nativists, etc.?
What accounted for differences in how some immigrant groups were treated with lesser or greater acceptance by white, Protestant Americans?
Compare and contrast the Melting Pot and Salad Bowl Theories and evaluate which one best describes our current reality?
How did immigrants balance maintaining their familiar cultures and languages with adapting to mainstream American culture and life?
How did immigrants finally earn respect for their contributions to our country? Did they?

Objectives

Describe the new industrial city and its impact on American society.
Discuss the "New Immigration" and opposition from many native-born Americans.
Describe the positive and negative aspects of life in large American cities.
Assess the attempts of social reformers to address the problems of the new urbanization.

Key Terms

"old" vs. "new" immigrants Alien Land Law Boss Tweed Burlingame Treaty Chinese Exclusion Act Chinese immigration Contract Labor Law of 1864 Culture shock De facto segregation Dennis Kearney Dumbbell tenements Ellis Island Emma Lazarus	Ethnic islands Florence Kelley Gentleman’s Agreement George Washington Plunkitt Ghettos Hull House Immigration Jane Addams Jean de Crevecoeur Josiah Strong Mark Twain Melting Pot National Origins Act of 1924		Naturalized citizen Political machine Radicals Row house settlement house skyscrapers Tammany Hall The Salvation Army Thomas Nast Urban sprawl Urbanization Workingmen's Party of California
Readings From the Countryside to the City The Glamour of American Cities The Underside of Urban Life The Rush of Immigrants Corruption Runs Wild Religious Revival: The "Social Gospel" Artistic and Literary Trends New Dimensions in Everyday Life Education Sports and Leisure Women in the Gilded Age Victorian Values in a New Age The Print Revolution		Assignments A Biography of America: The New City Open Access US History Growth of Cities Life in the City Writing assignment Journal response

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1898-1998: Centennial of the Spanish American War
The virtual destruction of native peoples in the United States by the early 1900's allowed national attention to turn outward. Interest in developing markets in China, and plans for a canal through Central America set the stage for a new level of expansion.

Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations in 1898
The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked a turning point in American history. Within a few years of the war's end, the United States was a world power, exercising control or influence over islands in the Caribbean Sea, the mid-Pacific Ocean and close to the Asian mainland. The conflict has sometimes been called "The Newspaper War," largely because the influence of a sensationalist press -- "Yellow Journalism"

CRITICAL CONTENT FOR THE GILDED AGE (1870-1900)
INDUSTRIALIZATION	aridity big business business organizations changing landscapes city funding city government city policing commercial agriculture communication conservation movement corporate practices corruption crop production culture change diversity division of wealth ecological damage	entrepreneurs environmental movement farm labor farm organizations farmers, ranchers & miners Federal government financiers financing grid iron growth heavy industry immigrants industrialists industrialization living standards local politics marketing mechanized farming	migration mining Native Americans natural resources opportunity political bosses political machines pollution ranching reformers regional differences social classes The Last Frontier transportation urban politics urbanization women
IMMIGRATION	anti-Catholicism anti-Semitism Asians Blacks civil rights immigrant contributions	ethnic diversity geographic diversity Hispanics linguistic diversity melting pot discrimination	opportunity religious diversity salad bowl settlement patterns Social Darwinism source countries
LABOR MOVEMENT	1896 election business response child labor civil service reform Depression of 1873-1879 Depression of 1893-1897 employer responses farm vs. factory work farmer’s response fiscal practices	gender issues government responses economic problems labor conflicts Labor’ response national labor unions Omaha Platform of 1892 political problems poor working conditions Populism	race/gender employment racial/ethnic issues reform union regional opportunities regulation Second Industrial Revolution social problems tariffs trade union
FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY	Westward expansion Dawes Act, 1887 treatment of Native people	Native survival strategies 19th century legacy U.S. army	missionaries reformers
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM	Spanish American War territorial acquisitions geopolitics	economic interest racial ideology missionary zeal	nationalism domestic issues Filipino insurrection

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