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Chapter 20 . Social Studies . Why did people move to cities in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s?. People moved to the cities to find jobs at factories . What type of work did people do in the cities?. Women worked in sweatshops Men worked in factories.
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Chapter 20 Social Studies
Why did people move to cities in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s? • People moved to the cities to find jobs at factories.
What type of work did people do in the cities? • Women worked in sweatshops • Men worked in factories
Why did Americans begin to resent immigrant workers? • Immigrants worked for less money than Americans. • They began taking American peoples’ jobs because they worked cheaper.
What was the purpose in the YMCA? • Children met and played there
What are ways that people spent their free time in the late 1800’s/early 1900’s? • Reading • Watching sports • Circuses • Vaudeville shows • Nickelodeons
What services did settlement houses give to the poor? • Taught English language classes • Provided playgrounds for children • Provided medical care
What did John Dewey believe about education? • It should relate to the interests, concerns, and problems of students
Describe a tenement. • Apartment building • Many people share dark rooms • No hot water • No bathtubs • No electricity • Filthy
Where was jazz music developed? • New Orleans
Who invented moving pictures? • Thomas Edison
Where were moving pictures played? • Nickelodeons
What was one result of better education? • People enjoyed reading books, newspapers, and magazines.
What did the Morrill Act do? • Gave states free land that they could sell in order to have money to build colleges with.
Why did people emigrate from their home countries? • Hope for a better life • Drought • persecution
What types of transportation developed in this time period? • Street cars • Cable-cars • Trolley-cars • subways
What made it easier for people to travel from one city to another? • Bridges • Paved roads
Describe the conditions on a ship’s steerage. • Crowded • Smelly • dark
Who built parks? • Frederick Law Olmsted
What was the result in overcrowding in the tenements? • Gangs and theft
What is Ellis Island? • A processing center for immigrants in New York Harbor
What is Angel Island? • A processing center for immigrants in San Francisco Bay
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act? • It stopped Chinese workers from entering the U.S for 10 years. • The Act was renewed 2 times. • Chinese workers were kept out of the U.S. for 30 years total.
What is the Gentleman’s Agreement? • Made between Japan and the U.S. • Stated that Japan would LIMIT the number of immigrants coming to America if Americans would treat Japanese citizens fairly.
What did Booker T. Washington found? • The Tuskegee Institute
How was society as a whole changing during the late 1800’s/early1900’s? • More Americans were getting an education. • Americans fell in love with Reading. • Americans began to watch sports events, attend plays, vaudeville shows, and moving pictures at nickelodeons.
What is the only original American sport created by James Naismith? Where was this played? • Basketball • YMCA