chapter 15: immigrants and urbanization by: henry, eric, jess, jade, meghan, melinda, shantel,...
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Chapter 15:Immigrants and Urbanization
By: Henry, Eric, Jess, Jade, Meghan, Melinda, Shantel, Little Italy
The New Immigrants
Europeans• Religion.• Population.
Chinese and Japanese• gold rush.• railroads.
The West Indies and Mexico•Jobs.
• 14 year old immigrant• American dream• Worked menial jobs• Bought a business• Was not satisfied
Fong See
Life in the New Land• Was a long, hard trip to
America• Ellis Island- main entry for
European immigrants• Had to pass health and
governmental inspections• 17,000,000 immigrants passed
through Ellis Island
• Angel Island- Asian entry area to U.S.
• In U.S., immigrants stayed by each other
Johnny Weissmuller
• Born in Timisoara, Romania
• Came to America on S.S. Rotterdam
• Arrived in New York on January 26, 1905
• Won five Olympic Gold medals in swimming
• Was actor in Tarzan Movies
–Set 67 world records
Benjamin Harrison
• 23 President • First to conduct "front-porch"
campaigns• “Little Ben”• First Pan American Congress• Tariff Issue• Party leaders abandoned
President Harrison
Immigration Restrictions
• Strong feelings emerged due to moving • Nativism led to anti immigration groups • Bill passes for literacy test for immigrants• Jobs go to Chinese• Gentleman's agreement• Immigrations closed except Asians
Grover ClevelandBorn in New Jersey
Elected President 1884
Re-elected in 1992
Lost popularity in own party
Congress didn’t back
Urbanization• Cities had bad living conditions.• Industrial jobs.• Americanization Movement.• Assimilate immigrants.• Inventions sped up urbanization.
Jacob Riis
• Denmark immigrant
• 1873 New York news
• Photo –journalism
• Poverty
• Inform and make a difference
Urban Problems
• Overcrowded, unsanitary tenements• New standards = worse living conditions• Bad water• Scavengers and sewer lines• Big city fires
Jane Admas• September 6, 1880• Wealthy family• Europe• Toynbee House• 1889-Hull House• Educational, Cultural, Social
services
Reformers Mobilize
• Social Gospel Movement• Settlement Houses• Charles Stover, Stanton Coit-NY-1886• 1890-Janie Porter Barrett-Locust Street Social
Settlement• Social responsibility toward poor
Me!
•Came From china
•Live in New York City
•Wear nice clothes
•I am single
Political Machine and Scandal
• Political Machine– Precinct Captains, Ward Bosses, City Boss
• Helped immigrants• Fraud and Graft• William M. Tweed– Thomas Nast
James A. Garfield• November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881
• 20th President
• Assassinated four months after his inauguration
(second shortest president)
• Republican Ohio Congressman
• Reformer
• Shot by a mentally unbalanced lawyer named
Charles Guiteau that wanted vice president Arthur to
govern.
• Problem of Patronage (Spoils System).
• Reformers push for a merit system of hiring in civil
service.
• Progress with republican presidents Rutherford B. Hayes,
James A. Garfield (assassinated) and Chester A. Arthur.
• Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883: bipartisan civil
service commission makes appointments to federal jobs
through a merit system based on candidates’ performance
on an examination.
• Strong Alliance between government and business.
• Big business and Republican want to raise tariffs.
• Democratic Party wants to lower tariff (and prices).
• Attempt to reduce tariffs fails (Cleveland), but spirit
of reform is still alive.