Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life, 1860 – 1900 Chapter 19.

Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life,

1860 – 1900

Chapter 19

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Readings

• You MUST read the chapter by the due dates assigned.

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Chapter Project

• As a group of 4

• Research the story of one immigrant from the 1890s who came to Ellis Island.

• Divide the transcript into 4 one-liners.

• Tell the person’s story. (2 days from now)

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The New American City

• 1890's Player Piano Music

1890 Census worker

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Migrants and Immigrants

• Asian and European Immigrants

• New Immigrants

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Ellis Island, New York

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Where did your family come from?

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Map 19.1: Percent of Foreign-born Whites and Native Whites of Foreign or Mixed Parentage in

Total Population, by Countries, 1910

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Adjusting to Urban Society

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Slums and Ghettos

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Fashionable Avenues and Suburbs

• Easter Parade

5th Avenue

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Flush Toilets

• Read pp. 574-575

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Middle- and Upper-Class Society and Culture

• Victorian morality

• The Nation, Phillips Brooks

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Manners and Morals

• The American Woman’s Home

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The Cult of Domesticity

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Department Stores

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Transformation of Higher Education

• Morrill Land Grant Act, 1862

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Female Colleges

• Stanford• Oberlin College• Columbia• Brown• Harvard• Pembroke• Radcliffe• Mount Holyoke• Wellesley• Smith• Bryn Mawr

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Reforming the Working Class

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Battling Poverty

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New Approaches to Social Reform

• Salvation Army • Josephine Shaw Lowell

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Moral Purity Campaign

• Anthony Comstock

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Social Gospel

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Figure 19.1: The Changing Face of U.S Immigration, 1865-1920

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Settlement House Movement

• Jane Addams

• Florence Kelley

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Working Class Leisure in the Immigrant City

• Saloons

• Dance halls

• Boxing matches

• Baseball games

• picnics

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Streets, Saloons and Boxing Matches

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Rise of Professional Sports

• John L. Sullivan• “Boston Strong Boy”

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Vaudeville, Amusement Parks and Dance Halls

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Ragtime

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Cultures in Conflict

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Genteel Tradition and Its Conflicts

• Bicycle built for two

Bicycle Built for Two

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Modernism

• Architecture

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Painting

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From Victorian Lady to New Woman

• Francis Willard

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Public Education as an Arena of Class Conflict

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Conclusion