| A | B |
|---|
| rural | country like farmlands |
| urban | city |
| suburban | area surrounding a city |
| Why do cities grow? | location, immigration, migrations |
| What are advantages of city life? | jobs, education, socialization, servies, entertainment |
| Horace Mann | changed educational system |
| Morrill Land Grant Act | land grants to establish agricultural and technical programs at colleges |
| Social Gospel | churches should improve society Salvation Army |
| Yellow Journalism | sensationalized stories designed to increase sales |
| The Jungle | book by Upton Sinclair corrruption in the meat industry |
| Jane Addams | founder of Hull House to help the poor |
| immigrant | entering new land |
| Why come to the U.S.? | economic, political, soical, religious, escape political unrest and persecution |
| Old immigrants | from northern western Europe |
| assimilate | adopt American customs and language |
| New Immmigrants | after 1880's southern eastern Europe formed ghettos |
| ghetto | separate neighborhoods |
| Nativism | national feelings |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Prohibits Chinese Immigration for 10 years |
| Gentleman's Agreement | informal agreement with Japan to limit number of Japanese immigrants to the U.S. |
| Emergency Quota Act | set up a quota for each country following WW1 |
| Immigration Quota Act | limited immigration based on national origins |
| Immigration and Naturalizatiuon Act | McCarren-Walker Act quota for Asians |
| Problems of Immigrants | live in slums,work long hours and low wages, no education, starvation |
| Political machines and bosses | immigrants turn to political bosses for help |
| Tammany Hall | center of NY corruption |
| William Tweed | bribed officals, padded contracts, controlled votes and candicates |
| Thomas Nast | cartoonist who broke Tweeds' power |
