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What were push and pull factors and examples of each?
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Push: negative [famine, persecution]
Pull: positive [land, fredom, good wages] |
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Pull factors are basically
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the idea that land is a symbol of opportunity
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Why did you know there were different methods for migration?
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Many would come and earn money and send it back which meant not all were permanent. Some would secure passages for their families to come later
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What were examples of immigrant problems?
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had many hardships from the outset like having to deal with being swindled, having fake papers and stolen goods
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Who were bosses and what was an example?
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Boss Tweed...and tehy seized upon immigrants.
They had connections to all levels of the municiapl government so political favors were very very common. They had influence |
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Who was Thomas Nast?
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he wrote for Harper's Weekly
he was a cartoonist who was Boss Tweed's enemy and critques the Guilded Age |
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what were Bosses a part of?
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the political machine
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What was a big effort?
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effort to Americanize immigrants—shed old cultures [connect this to chapter 17 americanizing the native americans]
--The Kennedy’s worked hard to shed Irish culture. |
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What sparked the Nativist Movement?
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Immigrants who dominated trade and worked for less.
It was xenophobic and racist |
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Redlining
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decided where immigrants could go or not
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How was the suburban sprawl made possible?
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by trolleys, automobile …the rich could move out
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Victorian Morality:
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--financial success linked to talent, greater intelligence, morality, self control. –connect to meritocracy
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when do separate spheres originate
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early 1800s
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what are the Victorian Morality views similar to
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views are similar to views proselytized during the 2nd Great Awakening
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who embraced victorian morality and what were the 3 attributes
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) human nature is malleable
2) emphasize the value of social work (prison work, anti slave etc, reform efforts during the 2nd great awakening) 3) genteel culture wealthiest of society |
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what did the cult of domesticity say
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home was a refuge and that women should fill home with beautiful art.
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what was the cult of domesticity an extension of
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repuliblican motehrhood but it was different due to the consumer culture from industrilization
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what were examples of social reform that failed
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orginzations like YMCAq
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what was the social gospel
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idea to use their religion to motivate to go out to do social reform
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hull house
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jane addamms and florecne kelly's settlement house
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why was hull hosue effective
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because it was in the inner citer and that jane addams assimliated herself into the community and hten was able to conenct to muniipal politicans
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who was a critique of the amount of money by the wealthy
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thorstein vebleen---captains of erudition
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What was the Bland-Allison Act?
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a precedent to the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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What did the poor do for entertainment and why?
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saloons, basketball and vaudeville because they were looking for lesiure becuase life is so boring. this allowed the wealthy to criqute htem for spending money
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who critiqued vicotiran morality
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mark twain
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what was a HUGE change that you really should put in your essay
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society had changed from what was once individual to now a complex interdependence
before the civil war, you could kind of live your own dream. once the influx of urban pouplation and immigrants came there becomes this bigger interdependnce |
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becuase of the hUGE THING how does this effect victorian morality
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this idea of victorian morality where you can do it yourself was short sighted. this brought upon the progressive era by a call to take more care of its citizens
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what was the reform that worked the best
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the settlement house...it made municipal connections that actually could create real political policy
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what were examples of slow moving reforms
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the grange, the southern alliance and Bryan running on a populist platform...it was clear that change was needed from these but that it wans't ready to come yet
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what is reform exactly
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it is something that is meanto to correct something else
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what was the reform of business practices
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the effects of industrialization
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what was the refrom of the Sherman Anti Trust
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to handle the issue of trusts and monopolies
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what was the reform of the pendleton civil service act
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to reform the corruption that was rampant in the guilded age
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