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Us history Period 6: Chapter 18: The Growth of Cities and American Culture, [339 - 353] class notes verified 100% Us history Period 6: Chapter 18: The Growth of Cities and American Culture, [339 - 353] class notes verified 100% Period 6: Chapter 18: The Growth of Cities and American Culture, [339 - 353] Due Date: THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 - Chicago hosted World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, 12 million people, present new industrial tech and architects vision of ideal urban environment - Chicago 1 million people, while marvel of urban structure, pollution, poverty, crime, and vice - Confusion of languages - Represented industrialization, immigration, and urbanization as ways of changing US society A Nation of Immigrants - US pop tripled from 23.2 mil in 1850 to 17.2 mil in 1900 - 16.2 mil immigrants, additional 8.8 mil in - Growth of Immigration - Increased pushes (people fleeing) and pulls (attractions of new country) - Pushes (negative) - Poverty of farmers by political turmoil and machines for farmwork - Overcrowding and joblessness from population boom - Religious persecution (Jews) - Pulls (positive) - Country’s rep for political and religious freedom - Economic opportunities by settling West - Abundance of industrial jobs in cities - Large steamships and inexpensive travel - “Old” Immigrants and “New” Immigrants - 1880s immigrants from N and W Europe: The British Isles, Germany, and Scandinavia - Protestants, English speaking, high level of literacy, occupational skills made it easy to blend in - New Immigrants - 1890s and to WW1 In 1914, origins of immigrants change - S and E Europe - Greeks, Croats, Slovaks, Poles, and Russians - Poor and illiterate, left autocratic countries, non democratic traditions - Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Jewish - Crowded into poor ethnic neighborhoods in NY, Chicago, and other major cities - 25% were birds of passage- young men for unskilled factory, mining, and construction, would return to native lands once saving fair sum of money - Scapegoats - Restricting Immigration - In 1870s, Frederic-Auguste Barth

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