This document discusses urbanization in late 19th century America, including the movement from farms to cities, changing immigration patterns, and the rise of ethnic neighborhoods. It also examines the women's suffrage movement and Progressive Era reforms led by activists like Jane Addams. New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe, spoke non-English languages, and practiced Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or Judaism. They faced nativism, and laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act restricted immigration. Settlement houses helped new immigrants adapt to urban life.

2. Explain the causes and effects of urbanization
in late nineteenth-century America, including
the movement from farm to city, the
changing immigration patterns, the rise of
ethnic neighborhoods, the role of political
machines, and the migration of African
Americans to the North, Midwest, and West.
Compare the accomplishments and
limitations of the women’s suffrage
movement and the Progressive Movement in
affecting social and political reforms in
America, including the roles of the media and
of reformers such as Carrie Chapman Catt,
Alice Paul, Jane Addams, and presidents
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

3. New Immigrants
 Southern Europe
 Italy
 Greece
 Eastern Europe
 Russia
 Poland
 Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish
 Non-English-speaking countries
 Republican Traditions

5. Ellis Island
New York City
Immigrants being processed, 1904

6. A View from the Ferry
Photo Credit: Jason Jennings (Class of 2012)

7. Photo Credit:
Jason Jennings
(Class of 2012)

8. Photo Credit:
Jason Jennings
(Class of 2012)

9. Document Credit:
James E. (Class of 2013)

10. Melting
Pot

11. NYC
Today
Ethnic
Neighborhoods
Source:
New York Times

12. Jacob Riis
 Photographer
 How the Other Half Lives
 Documented living conditions
in New York City’s tenements.
 Sweatshops
 LINK:
 http://www.authentichistory.com/1898-
1913/2-progressivism/2-riis/index.html

13. “Settlement House”
Jane Addams Movement
 Hull House
 Chicago, IL
 Education, Job Training,
Child Care, etc.
 Social and economic
opportunities for the Addams
working class

15. NATIVISM Group
English
Good
66%
Bad [166]
6%
Irish 62% 7%
1982 Opinion Poll:
Jews 59% 9%
"Thinking both of what Germans 57% 11%
they have contributed to Italians 56% 10%
this country and have Poles 53% 12%
gotten from this country, Japanese 47% 18%
for each one tell me Blacks 46% 16%
whether you think, on Chinese 44% 19%
balance, they've been a Mexicans 25% 34%
good or a bad thing for Koreans 24% 30%
this country." Vietnamese 20% 38%
See Wikipedia for more Puerto Ricans 17% 43%
public opinion figures on Haitians 10% 39%
immigration in the United
States. Cubans 9% 59%

16. Chinese Exclusion Act
 First US Law to restrict immigration based
on nationality or race
 Remained on the books in various forms
until 1943

17. No Soup
For You!
"A Matter of Taste." (c. 1883). Thomas Nast.
(John Chinaman refuses Soup in Kearney's
Senatorial Restaurant--refers to legislation “How can Christians
pertaining to Chinese Exclusion Act) stomach such diet?”

18. "Pacific Chivalry." (August 7, 1869). Thomas Nast. (California ruffian whips John Chinaman)
http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos/img0048.html

19. Thomas Nast, cartoon - "The Comet of Chinese Labor" (1870)
http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos/img0049.html

20. "The Chinese Question." (February
18, 1871). Thomas Nast. (Columbia
defends disconsolae John Chinaman
from nativist Attacks)
http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos/img0050.html

21. Gentleman’s Agreement (1907)
EXCLUSION
BY LAW
EXCLUSION BY
AGREEMENT
Japan agrees to control emigration if
U.S. does not pass a law and treats
existing Japanese immigrants fairly.

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