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The New American City: Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life, 1860-1900

Explore the impact of immigration, urbanization, and everyday life on the development of the new American city in the late 19th century. Understand the challenges faced by migrants and immigrants, the rise of slums and ghettos, and the transformation of society and culture during this period.

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The New American City: Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life, 1860-1900

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  1. IMMIGRATION, URBANIZATION, AND EVERYDAY LIFE, 1860–1900 CHAPTER 19

  2. The New American City • Migrants and Immigrants

  3. Asian and European ImmigrantsLiving in the Western Hemisphere and Hawaii in 1900 • Adjusting to an Urban Society • Slums and Ghettos • Fashionable Avenues and Suburbs

  4. Percent of Foreign-born Whites and Native Whites of Foreign or Mixed Parentage in Total Population, by Countries, 1910 Source: D.W.Meinig, The Shaping of America—A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History. Yale University Press. Volume 3.

  5. Middle and Upper-ClassSociety and Culture • Manners and Morals • The Cult of Domesticity • Department Stores • The Transformation of Higher Education

  6. Working-Class Politics and Reform • Political Bosses and Machine Politics Battling Poverty • New Approaches to Social Reform • The Moral-Purity Campaign • The Social Gospel • The Settlement-House Movement

  7. Working-Class Leisure in the Immigrant City • Streets, Saloons, and Boxing Matches • The Rise of Professional Sports • Vaudeville, Amusement Parks, andDance Halls • Ragtime

  8. Cultures in Conflict • The Genteel Tradition and Its Critics • Modernism in Architecture and Painting • From Victorian Lady to New Woman • Public Education as an Arena of Class Conflict

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