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Tenement Living
Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives
Boss Tweed
The Rise of the City
Coney Island
Articles
- The Conscience of Place: Where the Other Half Lived
- The photographs of Jacob Riis confronted New Yorkers with the misery of Mulberry Bend — and helped to tear it down.
- Why 'Legal Immigration' Doesn't Apply to Early Immigrants to the US
- NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Kevin Jennings, president of the Tenement Museum in New York City, about why the phrase "legal immigration" does not apply to early immigrants to the U.S., who came to this country before immigration laws were enacted.
CHAPTER 18 – The Age of the City
1. THE URBANIZATION OF AMERICA
a. The Lure of the City
b. Migrations
c. The Ethnic City
d. Assimilation
e. Exclusion
2. THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
a. The Creation of Public Space
b. Housing the Well-to-Do
c. Housing Workers and the Poor
d. Urban Transportation
e. The “Skyscraper”
3. STRAINS OF URBAN LIFE
a. Fire and Disease
b. Environmental Degradation
c. Urban Poverty
d. Crime and Violence
e. The Machine and the Boss
4. THE RISE OF MASS COMMUNICATION
a. Patters of Income and Consumption
b. Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses
c. Department Stores
d. Women as Consumers
5. LEISURE IN THE CONSUMER CULTURE
a. Redefining Leisure
b. Spectator Sports
c. Music and Theater
d. The Movies
e. Working-Class Leisure
f. The Fourth of July
g. Mass Communication
6. HIGH CULTURE IN THE AGE OF THE CITY
a. The Literature of Urban America
b. Art in the Age of the City
c. The Impact of Darwinism
d. Toward Universal Schooling
e. Education for Women
Essential Terms
The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...
- big business
- subsidies
- conspicuous consumption
- increased Southern and Eastern European immigration
- political machines
- self-help groups
- laissez-faire economics
- urbanization
- monopolies
- Gilded Age
- Social Darwinism
- women's clubs
- xenophobia
FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.
- Armory Show
- Aschan school
- "City Beautiful" movement
- Darwinism
- D.W. Griffith
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Henry James
- Jacob Riis
- Kate Chopin
- mail order houses
- National Consumers League
- nativism
- public transportation
- skyscrapers
- spectator sports
- social realism
- Stephen Crane
- Tammany Hall
- tenements
- Theodore Dreiser
- Upton Sinclair
- vaudeville
- William James
- William M. Tweed
- women's colleges
- newspaper chains
Baseball (Ken Burns; PBS)
Hester Street
An American Tail
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