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Objective 5.01

Objective 5.01. Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life. Essential Questions. • How did immigration and industrialization shape urban life? • How did the rapid industrialization of the Gilded Age create economic, social, and political change in the U.S.?

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Objective 5.01

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  1. Objective 5.01 Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.

  2. Essential Questions • How did immigration and industrialization shape urban life? • How did the rapid industrialization of the Gilded Age create economic, social, and political change in the U.S.? • Did immigration and rapid industrialization have a positive or negative impact on the economic and social structure of the United States?

  3. Thomas Edison • Opened a research laboratory, invented the light bulb among other things

  4. Alexander Graham Bell • Inventor of the telephone

  5. Elevator • Invented by Werner Von Siemans, contributed to the development of skyscrapers.

  6. Electric Trolley • Developed to transport people from one part of New York to another.

  7. Typewriter • Invented by Christopher Sholes, changed the way that businesses maintained records, also the name of the person that used the machine

  8. Ellis Island • Induction center for immigrants arriving from Europe

  9. Culture Shock • Initial reaction of the immigrants entering the country for the first time

  10. Melting Pot • Mixing of many different cultures to form a culture

  11. Cultural Pluralism • Many cultures together in one place with each maintaining their identity

  12. Nativism • Favoring native born people over immigrants

  13. Urbanization • City’s population continues to expand

  14. Dumbbell Tenements • One room apartments for immigrants, overcrowded and unsanitary

  15. Jacob Riis • New York police reporter, took pictures of the urban poor and exposed the conditions of the tenement houses

  16. Sweatshop • Workers worked for long hours at low pay, child labor, poor working conditions

  17. Jane Addams • Set up a settlement house in Chicago called the Hull House

  18. Settlement Houses • Community centers set up for immigrants to provide food, clothing, shelter, education, recreation and social interaction

  19. Chinese Exclusion Act • Limited immigration from China to teachers, merchants, business leaders, and diplomats

  20. Amusement Parks • Coney Island, place where people could go to escape industrial life for a while, 1st hotdogs, entertainment, thrill rides

  21. Spectator Sports • Boxing and Baseball were the most popular from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s Jack Johnson

  22. Frederick Olmstead • Designed Central Park in New York as a getaway from urban life.

  23. Elevator Electric trolleys Telephone Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Typewriter “New” immigrants vs.“Old” immigrants Jacob Riis Ellis Island Settlement houses Jane Addams Dumbbell tenements Chinese Exclusion Act Sweatshops Amusement parks Spectator sports Frederick Law Olmsted QuizChoose 5 and describe their impact on the period of Immigration and Urbanization

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