Chapter 18: the Age of Cities

Chapter 18: The Age of Cities

“New immigrants” “immigrant ghettos” assimilation Americanization First generation Second generation Nativism Henry Bowers Immigration Restriction League “Immigration question” Frederick Law Olmstead & Calvert Vaux “City Beautiful Movement “Great White City” “Back Bay” “Streetcar suburbs” Tenement Jacob Riis Skyscraper Steel-Girder Construction Great Chicago, Boston, San Francisco fires City pollution Alice Hamilton Public Health Service Occupational Health and Safety Administration (1970) Salvation Army Theodore Dreiser “Bosses” Graft and corruption Tammany Hall William M Tweed (“Boss” Tweed) “Urban machine” (“political machine”) Mass consumption “Chain stores” “Mail-Order houses” or “mail- order catalogs Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company F. W. Woolworth & “Five and Ten Cent Store” Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck Department Stores National Consumers League Simon Patten Public leisure - “going out” Coney Island Central Park “Movie Palaces” Baseball / “rounders” Major League Baseball Football NCAA Basketball / Dr. James A. Naismith John L. Sullivan “Black Sox Scandal” Ethnic theater George M. Cohan Irving Berlin Vaudeville Florenz Ziegfeld Nickelodeons D.W. Griffith / Birth of a Nation Neighborhood saloon Fourth of July Dime novels Little Women by Louisa May Alcott William Randolph Hurst Joseph Pulitzer “Yellow journalism” Ladies Home Journal Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer Social Realism Red Badge of Courage and Maggie by Stephen Crane The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Octopus by Frank Norris The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams Ashcan School “Armory Show” Charles Darwin “Natural selection” “Pragmatism” Carlisle Indian Industrial School “Land-Grant” Institutions “Women’s colleges”