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Social Issues
In the Gilded Age
NEW INVENTIONS MADE RAPID URBAN GROWTH
POSSIBLE
CITIES NEAR
NATURAL
RESOURCES GREW
THE FASTEST.
REQUIRED MORE
LABOR,
ATTRACTING MANY
IMMIGRANTS
Immigration Changes
Northern and Western Europe
1800-1880s
How do they differ?
AFTER 1880s
Eastern and Southern Europe
CHART OF IMMIGRATION
1820 TO 1980
1900
COMING TO AMERICA
WHY?
WHAT WERE THE
PUSH/PULL FACTORS
STEERAGE:
THE
CHEAPEST
WAY TO COME
TO AMERICA
ELLIS ISLAND IMMIGRATION CENTER,
NEW YORK CITY
WEST COAST IMMIGRATION CENTER, ANGEL
ISLAND
PAPER READS: “MAFIA IN NEW ORLEANS, ANARCHISTS IN
CHICAGO, SOCIALISTS IN NEW YORK”
THE CHINESE WERE THE FIRST GROUP OF
IMMIGRANTS TO BE DENIED ENTRY INTO THE
UNITED STATES
INTENDED
EFFECT OF THE
CHINESE
EXCLUSION
ACT OF 1882
The act barred Chinese
immigration for 10 years
and prevented the
Chinese in the U.S.
from becoming citizens.
*It was not repealed until
1943.
REACTIONS TO
INCREASED
IMMIGRATION
ANTI-CATHOLIC GROUP THAT HAD
OVER A MILLION MEMBERS BY 1894.
AMERICAN
PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION
Idea of protecting the
interests of native-born
people against those of
immigrants.
NATIVISM
INCREASED
IMMIGRATION
It was the first significant law
restricting immigration into the
United States
CHINESE
EXCLUSION
ACT
Problems of Urban Growth
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Tenements- poor housing
Sanitation and disease
Low wages
Child labor
• Immigrant challenges
– Isolated, scared
– Unable to speak language
– Used by politicians
IMMIGRANT
NEIGHBORHOODS IN
NEW YORK CITY:
LATER HALF OF THE
19TH CENTURY
NEW IMMIGRANTS TENDED TO MOVE WHERE
THEY KNEW PEOPLE FROM THE OLD WORLD
PROBLEMS IN THE NEW CITIES
SLUMS
TENEMENTS WERE APARTMENT BUILDINGS WITH MANY
SMALL ROOMS WHERE WHOLE FAMILIES WOULD LIVE,
CROWDED TOGETHER WITHOUT ADEQUATE AIR, WATER
OR SANITARY FACILITIES
POOR SANITATION
DISEASE
Poor
sanitation,
backed up
sewers,
crowded
poorly
ventilated
apartments
led to the
rapid spread
of disease.
CHILD LABOR
In 1908, the National Child Labor Committee assigned
Lewis Hine to photograph child labor practices.
He traveled photographing children in mines, factories,
canneries, textile mills, street trades and assorted
agricultural industries.
Hine’s photographs alerted the public to the fact that
child labor deprived children of childhood, health, and
education. His work was the driving force behind
changing the public’s attitude and fueling the fight for
stricter child labor laws.
THE WHOLE FAMILY WORKS TO MAKE
ENDS MEET, 1908
EDUCATION WAS NOT COMPULSORY
AND MOST CHILDREN WORKED IN
FACTORIES
Women’s rights
– Women were working for greater rights,
– More women working but often for low wages and
sometimes poor conditions
• Triangle Shirtwaist factory for example
– Especially suffrage (the right to vote)
– Notable people, pioneers in women's’ suffrage, Susan B.
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rights of African- Americans
– The majority were poor and lived for the most part in the
southern states.
– They worked as tenant farmers.
– Jim Crow Laws-were enacted in many Southern areas to
promote segregation of Blacks from Whites
– Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)-court case that established ”separate
but equal”
– Blacks had little political control.
– Faced the brutality of mob violence and lynching, Ku Klux Klan.
– Notable people: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida
B. Wells
EXAMPLES OF JIM CROW LAWS
Restaurants: It shall be unlawful to conduct a
restaurant or other place for the serving of
food in the city, at which white and colored
people are served in the same room, unless
such white and colored persons are effectively
separated by a solid partition extending from
the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or
higher, and unless a separate entrance from
the street is provided for each compartment.
 Education: The schools for white children
and the schools for black children shall be
conducted separately. (Florida)
The Blind: The board of trustees shall
maintain a separate building. on separate
ground for the admission, care, instruction,
and support of all blind persons of the colored
or black race. (Louisiana)