Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life Class Outline

I. Overview

a. Creation of urban culture

b. New problems created by urban life

II. New American Cities

a. Growth was nation wide

b. Migrants and immigrants

i. New immigrants

c. Ellis Island

d. Adjusting to urban society

i. Chain migration

ii. Slums and ghettos

III. Middle and Upper Class Society

a. Victorian Morality

b. Cult of Domesticity

c. Department Stores

IV. Working Class Politics and Reform

a. Political bosses and machines

i. Ward boss

ii. William Tweed

iii. Salvation Army

iv. Moral-purity campaign

v. The Social Gospel

V. Working Class Leisure in the Immigrant City

a. Saloons and boxing matches

b. The Rise of Professional Sports

c. Vaudeville