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America Moves to the City, 1865 - 1900

America Moves to the City, 1865 - 1900. AP U.S. History Chapter 25. THE URBAN FRONTIER. Population in 1900 - 80 million (16.2 million were immigrants). 105 million by 1920 (40% in cities) Cities growing up and out Skyscrapers Louis Sullivan – “form follows function”. Chicago.

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America Moves to the City, 1865 - 1900

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  1. America Moves to the City, 1865 - 1900 AP U.S. History Chapter 25

  2. THE URBAN FRONTIER • Population in 1900 - 80 million (16.2 million were immigrants). 105 million by 1920 (40% in cities) • Cities growing up and out • Skyscrapers • Louis Sullivan – “form follows function” Chicago 1st skyscraper - 1885 Buffalo, NY St. Louis

  3. Commuting increased - mass-transit • “Street car cities” – 1890s – electric trolleys, elevated railroads, and subways • Brooklyn Bridge – John Roebling • Segregate urban workers by income!!!

  4. Residential Suburbs • Factors that promoted suburban growth: • Abundant land, low cost • Inexpensive transportation • Low cost construction methods – wood framed houses • Ethnic and racial prejudice • American fondness for grass, privacy, and detached individual houses

  5. 3 Groups Moving TO Cities 1. Farmers 2. African Americans 3. Immigrants - largest

  6. Rural to Cities • Industrial jobs • Replaced by equipment • entertainment, electricity, indoor plumbing, and telephones • Department Stores • women - career opportunities • 1890s – 1 million new workers • 1900 – 15 million

  7. Southern Blacks to cities (Great Migration biggest movement during WWI)

  8. Immigration • “Old Immigrants” • 1860s – 1880s • Northern and Western Europe • Language, level of literacy, occupational skills similar – easily accepted • Rural • “New Immigrants” • After 1890 • Southern and Eastern Europe • Poor, illiterate, no democratic traditions, Catholics, Jews – not accepted • Urban

  9. 1899 – 1910 ¾ were men. Many returned home. Most came through Ellis Island in New York harbor from 1882-1954 Most came through Ellis Island in New York harbor from 1882-1954 Most came through Ellis Island in New York harbor from 1882-1954 Most came through Ellis Island in New York harbor from 1882-1954 Other Cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans

  10. Europeans made up ¾ of immigration

  11. Push/Pull Factors • Economic: Push – farmlands worn out, large-scale commercial farming drove them off their land, and low wages and unemployment due to machines. Also rising populations in Europe – doubled to 400 million. This led to competition for jobs in Europe. Pull – America seen as land of opportunity – fertile lands for little or no cost and expanding economy offered opportunities for jobs. • Political: Push – European governments controlled by upper class with common people having no say so in political matters. Pull – America democratic with people having a strong voice in government. • Social: Push – Europe – rigid class distinctions, few educational opportunities for poor, discrimination against religious minorities. Jew pushed out of Russia. Pull – America land of equality where they could rise in social status. “American Letters”

  12. Immigrant Labor • 70% of workforce • Jews and Italians – garment • Mexican – CA agriculture • Children – 25% of boys and 10% of girls 10-15 employed • Injury, death • 60 hr workweek • 1900 - $400-500/year

  13. Chinese and Japanese • 1851 – 1883 – 300,000 Chinese to West Coast. Gold, RR • 1884 – Japanese to Hawaii - plantations (sugar cane). • 1898 annexation of HI led to Japanese immigration to the US. • 1907 – 30,000 Japanese came to the US (peak).

  14. Anti-Asian Sentiment • low wages • strikebreakers • strange customs • 1882 – Chinese Exclusion Act – banned all Chinese from entering the country

  15. Also scared Japanese and other Asian’s would take jobs. Japan had just defeated Russian and agitators used this – “Yellow Peril” • 1906 – Asian children segregated in schools. • 1907/08 – Gentlemen’s Agreement– TR and Japan – Japan limit immigration of unskilled workers, US repeal segregation order.

  16. Urbanization and Industrialization • Happened at same time • Cities – cheap labor force, market for goods • 1900 – 40% of Americans lived in towns/cities • 1920 – more urban than rural

  17. Challenges of Cities … • Crime: prostitution, cocaine, gambling, violent crime. • Unsanitary conditions • "Dumbell" tenement (50%) • Pages 559 – 560

  18. Jacob Riis – “How the Other Half Lives”

  19. Immigrant Cultures in America • As rich moved out to suburbs, immigrant poor moved in • Ethnic neighborhoods – “ghettos” – maintain own culture, language • Foreign-language newspapers, theaters, food stores, restaurants, parishes, social clubs. • Catholic parochial schools

  20. REACTIONS TO THE NEW IMMIGRATION • Political machines catered to new immigrants • Bosses traded jobs and services for votes (creating powerful immigrant voting blocks) • Tammany Hall – New York City, “Boss Tweed” • Provided services to city

  21. Thomas Nast– political cartoonist who brought attention to the Tweed Ring – finally broken in 1871.

  22. Social Crusaders • Reformers hated these practices; wanted to curb power of political machines • Social Gospel • Christianity - improve life on earth • improve problems of alcoholism & unemployment • sparks Progressive Movement • Washington Gladden: open churches in working class districts. • Salvation Army – aid to homeless/poor

  23. Settlement House Movement • Women’s movement, northern, white, middle-class • Jane Addams • Hull House (Chicago) – immigrants taught English, classes in nutrition, health, and child care, social gatherings. • Helped immigrants cope with American big-city life • Lillian Wald -- Henry Street Settlement in NY.

  24. Settlement houses - centers of women’s activism/social reform. • Florence Kelly – Illinois Factory Law • Red Cross (1881) • YWCA (1858)

  25. NARROWING THE WELCOME MAT • Nativists – New Immigrants – culturally/religiously inferior. • high birthrates • "starvation" wages. • American Protective Association (APA) 1887 – supported immigration restrictions • Congress – 1882 – banned paupers, criminals, and convicts. 1885 – banned foreign workers under contract (usually working for substandard wages). • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  26. DARWIN DISRUPTS THE CHURCHES • Churches confront urban challenge • Origin of the Species (1859) theory that humans had slowly evolved from lower life forms -- Cast serious doubt on the literal interpretation of the Bible, esp. creationism. • Created rifts in the churches and colleges of post Civil War era. • “Fundamentalists" VS."Modernists"

  27. THE LUST FOR LEARNING • Tax-supported elementary schools • Grade-school education compulsory • Public high schools increased • Kindergarten • Private Catholic parochial schools grew • Chautauqua movement -1874 in NY to educate adults • 90% literacy rate • WHY??? Free government can not function without educated citizens!!!

  28. Higher Education • Morrill Act (1862) - public lands to states for support of education. • Philanthropists • Women’s Colleges

  29. BTW vs. WEB • Booker T. Washington • Tuskegee, AL • Useful trades as a means towards self-respect and economic equality • Accommodation – accept segregation for now • GRADUAL!!!!! • W.E.B. DuBois – opposed BTW – demanded IMMEDIATE social and economic equality for Af – Am, led by “Talented 10th” • Niagara Movement – immediate end to segregation • NAACP

  30. The Press • Joseph Pulitzer:Yellow Journalism attributed to his newspapers • William Randolph Hearst alsobuilt up a powerful chain of newspapers

  31. The New Morality • Victoria Woodhull’s periodical Woodhull and Clafin’s Weekly included feminist propaganda for women’s suffrage, equal rights, and "free love." • Comstock Law (1873) - forbade publishing of “provocative” sexual material (e.g. discussion of birth control) • New Urban environment hard on families – separated from families, subjected to stress. Launched the era of divorce • Birthrates continued to drop, marriages delayed. • Voting – Carrie Chapman Catt • Women - right to vote in local elections (WY – first state to give women unrestricted suffrage).

  32. Crusade for the Prohibition of Alcohol • Liquor consumption increased in years following Civil War.         1. Immigrant groups resisted temperance or prohibition laws.         2. Saloons in late-19th century were exclusively male. • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) organized in 1874 • Led by Francis Willard- Increasingly saw alcoholism as result of poverty, not the cause. Put enormous pressure on states to abolish alcohol; somewhat successful. • Carrie A. Nation • Anti-Saloon League formed in 1893 • Statewide prohibition laws now sweeping new states during the Progressive Era.          -- In 1919, 18th Amendment made alcohol illegal (lasted only 14 years).

  33. Women’s Rights • National American Women’s Suffrage Association (formed in 1890) – NAWSA – equal rights (esp right to vote) • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Susan B. Anthony • American Women Suffrage Association led by Lucy Stone.

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