2. • New York Herald; by James Gordon Bennet
• Modern journalism was created; gave the
reader what the people wanted to hear;
politically independent
• First Herald papers, 3 suicides, 3 murders, a
fire which killed 10 people, and an accident
which involved a shooting in the face.
• Pre modern paper—owned by certain political
party, expensive, and not much circulation
3. The Famine-Irish Immigrants
• More Irish in New York than
anywhere else other than
Dublin.
• Irish and african-americans
thrown into competition for
the worst dwellings and lowest
playing jobs
• Irish death rate 3 times higher
than the rest of the city
4. Roaring 20’s
• Shift in economic
times; “2nd industrial
revolution”
• Mass production of new consumer goods;
automobiles, washing machines, household
appliances
• For ordinary people for the first time.
• Need to be good at advertising and marketing
5. Barnum’s American Museum
• American Museum started when Barnum
bought Scudder’s museum
• Building was a mix between a
museum, lecture hall, wax museum
freak show, zoo, and theatre.
-Brought eager audiences from all
around
6. F. Scott Fitz Gerald
• Moved to New York
amongst many others
trafficking in
• Great American novelist
• Break up with Zelda
caused a 3 day drinking
binge, right after, rewrote
old-rejected manuscript,
got in the papers and
started becoming popular
instantly
7. Harlem
• An explosion of artistic culture, mainly by
African Americans, came out of Harlem
starting around 1910
• Poetry, novels, painting,
jazz, etc.
• Made new opportunities
for the poor who lived
around there since the
culture started gaining
reputation
8. “A Merger”
• New York’s success of becoming the national
metropole was due to it’s leaders abilities to
envision the future path of national economy;
then strategically adapt.
• 2 major examples: -The building of the Eerie
canal which controlled
exports to Europe
-The “triangle” trade
(between N.Y., the “cotton
farming” south, and Britain)
9. “the Great transatlantic
MiGrations”
• 1870-1920—migrations to and from America,
across the Atlantic, occurred
• 3 major factors that caused and helped:
-Steam powered transportation
-Absence of political and legal
restraints
-Job opportunity; potential
agriculture and industrial
development
10. Comparative Migration
• America took in almost any foreigner who
came; included every country in Europe and
beyond
• Argentina & Brazil took in mostly
Mediterraneans
• Canada took in exclusively Irish and British
• American took in more than 6 times what
South America received
11. “Birds of Passage”
• “Birds of Passage”: Immigrants who came to
earn America’s capital, then go back home
with the earned money
• Did not pledge to America’s allegiance; led to
harsh anti-immigration laws
