University:
York University
Course:
HIST 2600 | United States History
Academic year:

2018
Views:

80

Pages:

1
Author:

Nick T.

Chapter 19 A. The Lure of the City New landscape influx, native, immigrants, Skyscrapers, Streetcars, Suburbs. Problems overcrowding, tenements, Sanitation, stench, Crime, waste. New Immigrants (South East) ethnic neighborhood, nativism Boss Tweed NY, Tammany Hall, votes, corruption, early welfare. Street Arabs kids left by Family to fend for themselves. Gibson Girls Central Park was just to show off Fancy living. Shoes For Votes. Women are more outgoing & athletic, Finding jobs, wage-jobs. Feminism. WASP White anglo-saxon protestant. Victorian Morals (dress, values, benave, reform). Ragtime Leisure possible free time, night life, music, circus, college sports. Family life poor work, middle-class, housewife, rich. Women Gibson Girl, assertive, taboo topics. Education compulsory, John Dewey (discipline, immigrants, South not really available. Make School mandatory [Plessy. Seperate but equal" us Ferguson 1894 "Piessy. Higher Education= (practical Greek & Latin not useful), gout help, segregation, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B du Bois Used to be a slave, becomes professor. Grew up middle-class, never experienced discrimination, and had no problems until he went to college became professor. Rights = B.T.W. Atlanta Compromise. C. Stirrings of Reform Social Darwinism = reform, dangerous, disagree Progress & Poverty Henry George, belongs everyone, tax land. Social Gospel Christian Standards. Settlement Adams Addams, Slums, Practical education.