Immigration and Urbanization

1.  I can identify and explain the four factors that drive immigration.

2.  I can explain how urbanization caused opportunities and problems for the cities

3.  I can explain how the political machines controlled state and local politics.

4.  I can describe early attempts to correct the “spoils systems."

5.  I can describe innovations/inventions that hoped to improve city life.

6.  I can explain American Leisure activities at the turn of the Century.

7.      I can explain how the roots of Progressivism are seated in the agricultural/populist movements of the late 1800s.

8.     I can explain the importance of the election of 1896.