The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

490 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age Working-Class Attitudes Social workers and government officials made many ...

The “New” Immigration 491 was far from common. Carnegies were rare. A study of the family backgrounds of 200 late-nineteenth- ce ...

492 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age for immigration remained the desire for economic betterment. “In America,” ...

New Immigrants Face New Nativism 493 servitude of colonial times. Numerous nationality groups assisted (and sometimes exploited) ...

494 created new ones, such as ethnic clubs and parochial schools. The diversity of immigrant experiences was reflected in the Ha ...

The Expanding City and Its Problems 495 These nativists, again like the pre-Civil War vari- ety, disliked Catholics and other mi ...

496 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age Industrialization does not entirely explain the growth of nineteenth-centu ...

where people worked hard and endured hardships in order to improve their own and their children’s lot. Observing the immigrants’ ...

498 Physicians, meanwhile, struggled to treat the disease. Some prescribed opium or whiskey, others chloroform or strychnine. On ...

499 Gulf of Mexico ATLANTIC OCEAN RedR. Ark ans as R. MissouriR. Mis sis psi piR . Ohio R. L.Superior L.M ich iga n L.H uro n L. ...

500 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age The unhealthiness of the tenements was notorious. No one knows exactly, bu ...

The Cities Modernize 501 passengers a year over the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Even the high cost of urban real ...

502 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age Insurance Building (completed in 1885) was the first metal-frame edifice. ...

Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games 503 Luna Park at Coney Island was a vast living theater in which the strollers were both ...

504 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age A football game pits Yale and Princeton in 1879. The field was not lined o ...

Christianity’s Conscience and the Social Gospel 505 worshippers, the pastors tended to become even more conservative. No more st ...

506 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age economic affairs, but his experiences as a minister in Springfield, Massac ...

Civilization and Its Discontents 507 laws, the regulation of the labor of women and chil- dren, and better schools. They employe ...

508 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age fellow countrymen the “most materialistic and money- making people ever kn ...

Chapter Review 509 Review Questions 1.The introduction to this chapter contrasts the appeal of cities in the late nineteenth cen ...