1What is in the water 2 What do you notice about the people on shore

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1)What is in the water?2) What do you notice
about the people on shore?
Aim Why did anti-immigrant feeling grow?
Do Now
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Wherever new immigrants settled, Nativists
pressure grew.Who are Nativists?
                                                
                                                  
                                                  
   Thomas Nast mid-1800s cartoon showing how
nativists believe the Catholic immigrants would
add unwanted influence into the USA.(note harp
in flag over Vatican)

• Americans who want to limit immigration
  preserve the country for native-born white
  Protestants.
• Argued that immigrants are too different b/c
  language, religions, customs.

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Chinese Immigration

• Most Americans did not understand Chinese
  customsAnti-Chinese feeling

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Group Work

• Directions Answer the following questions using
  the cartoon?
• Who wants the Chinese Exclusion Act renewed?
• What does the Senator believe will happen if the
  Chinese Exclusion Act does not pass?
• What does the A.F.L believe?

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Chinese Exclusion Act

• Banned Chinese laborers from entering the
  country.
• No Chinese person who left the U.S. could
  return.
• First law to exclude a specific national group
  from immigrating to the U.S.

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Growth of Cities
Aim How did reformers help to improve city
life? Do Now Handout

• Growing industries need for workers
• -Jobs drew people to cities
• Who's Moving to the City?
• Immigrants
• Many farmers left for city jobs
• African Americans is escape prejudice violence
  in the south.

Urbanization- the movement of the population from
farms to cities.
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• In city centers poor families crammed into
  buildings divided into small apartmentstenements.
  Many had no windows, heat or indoor bathrooms.
• Rich lived in huge mansions on
• the outskirts of town.5th Avenue

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Problem
Reform
Cities hired workers to collect garbage sweep
streets Zoning laws kept factories out of
neighborhoods where people lived New Water
systems Cities set up professional fire companies
police forces. Building codes- set standards
for construction safety, required fire escapes
decent plumbing Public Parks ex Central Park
Sanitation Disease Polluted air Crime Fires La
ck of open space
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Settlement house Movement
Settlement houses- community centers that offered
services to the poor. JANE ADDAMS a key figure in
the movement. Opened a settlement house named,
the Hull House
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A Building Boom
Crowded more people into smaller spacesProblem
more traffic. Solution Electric Streetcar
Skyscrapers
Before
After
Streetcar lines were fast clean quiet the lines
ran from the center of the city to the
countryside, creating the first suburbs.
Department Stores
Sold all kinds of goods in different sections or
departments. Shopping became a popular pastime
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Newspapers
Joseph Pulitzer

• Created the first major newspaper
• Devised effective ways to increase newspaper
  sales
• Included sports comic sections in the New York
  World

William Randolph Hearst

• New York Journal
• Coined the term yellow journalism-news reporting
  often untrue, that relies on sensational stories
  headlines
• People would rather read gossipsale of many
  papers

"Funny Side of the World"
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Americans _at_ Play
Baseball
Basketball
Most popular sport in the Nation! First played
in New York during the Civil War
In 1891, James Naismith invented basketball. He
wanted a sport that could be played indoors in
the winter.
Football
COLLEGE FOOTBALL ITS BEGINNINGS Soon after the
end of the American Civil War, around 1865,
colleges began organizing football games. In
1867, Princeton led the way in establishing some
rudimentary rules of the game. Also in that year,
the football itself was patented for the very
first time.

• The Cuban Giants, formed the first
  all-black professional baseball team in 1885. The
  name was adopted because Latino players were more
  commonly accepted than blacks at that time.

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MusicR a g t I me
Ragtime a new kind of music with a lively,
rhythmic sound. Scott Joplin King of Ragtime
an African American composer helped make
ragtime popular. Wrote a text book about
ragtime. A variety show that included
comedians, song dance routines acrobats
Vaudeville