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Old Immigrants
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Most of them were Protestants from northwestern Europe.
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New Immigrants
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Were from southern or eastern Europe, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish Russian, and Slovak were among the nationalities represented.
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Steerage
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Most traveled in the poorest accommodations called this
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benevolent societies
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to help immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death.
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Denis Kearney
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The party's leader, was himself an Irish immigrant.
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Chinese Exclusion Act.
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which denied citizenship to people born in china and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
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Immigration Restriction League
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Sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants.
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Grover Cleveland
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President that vetoed the Immigration Restriction League.
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Skyscrapers
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Large, multistory buildings.
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Elisha Otis
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developed a mechanized elevator, which allowed people and materials to be transported more easily.
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Mass transit
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Included forms of public transportation such as electric commuter trains, subways and trolley cars.
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suburbs
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Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city.
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Nouveau Riche
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A French term meaning the newly rich.
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conspicuous consumption
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Social scientist Thorstein Veblen labeled this behavior.
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Tenements
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poorly built apartment buildings
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settlement houses
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community service centers--in poor neighborhoods residents in the forefront of the American sttlement-house movement.
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Jane Addams
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was at the forefront of the American settlement-house movement.
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Janie Porter Barrett
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founded one of the first African American settlement houses
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Social Gospel
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which called for people to apply Christian principles to address social problems.
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Caroline Bartlett
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organized People's Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, according to the Social Gospel.
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Compulsory Education laws
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laws requiring parents to send children to school.
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John Dewey
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One of the main reformers was this philosopher.
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yellow journalism
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The hugely popular cartoon inspired many critics to refer to the World's and the Journal's style of sensational reporting as this.
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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designed Central Park
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City Beautiful movement
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Olmsted's success helped spur an American planning movement known as this.
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Walter Camp
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played football for Yale during the late 1870's
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James Naismith
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A physical educator in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Edwin Booth
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proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860's and 1870's.
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Vaudeville
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The French word for light play
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Ragtime
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proved popular with audiences
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scott joplin
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born into a family of musicians from east texas
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