How did the role and responsibilities of the federal government change during the Progressive Era and the New Deal?
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Life in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
Chapter 17
The New Urban America
- The New Face of the City
- Technological innovations
- Many equated with progress
- Urban expansion
- Some cities became known for a particular product
- The New Urban Middle Class
- School attendance rose
- Much of new advertising focused on middle class
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- Refining Gender Roles
- Greater educational opportunities for women
- Marked part of a change in social definitions of gender roles
- More women finished college
- Some chose to enter the professions
- Emergence of a Gay and Lesbian Subculture
- Gravitated toward largest cities
The New Urban America
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- “How the Other Half Lives”
- Jacob Riis
- Blamed:
- Greedy landlords
- Corrupt officials
- The poor themselves
The New Urban America
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New South, Old Problems
- Social Patterns in the New South
- Education lagged
- The Second Mississippi Plan and the Atlanta Compromise
- Civil Rights Cases (1883)
- Second Mississippi Plan (1890)
- Booker T. Washington
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Ethnicity and Race in the Gilded Age
- A Flood of Immigrants from Europe
- Trend was constantly upward
- U.S. attracted
- Largest number
- Greatest diversity
- Patterns of settlement
- Reflected expectations & opportunities
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- Nativism
- Fears of “new” immigrant
- Often linked to anti-Catholicism
- American Protective Association (APA)
- Immigrants to the Golden Mountain
- 300,000 Chinese immigrants
- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Ethnicity and Race in the Gilded Age
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- Forced Assimilation
- Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
- Mexican Americans in the Southwest
- Automatically became citizens
- Discrimination
- 1910 Mexican Revolution
Ethnicity and Race in the Gilded Age
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Workers Organize
- Workers for Industry
- Immigrants
- Children
- Women
- The Origins of Unions and Labor Conflict in the 1870s
- Great Railway Strike of 1877
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- Competing Labor Organizations in the 1880s
- Knights of Labor
- Haymarket
- American Federation of Labor
- Labor on the Defensive in the 1890s
- 1893 American Railway Union Strike
Workers Organize
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