wonderful wednesday, sept.24 take your seat take out your warm-ups quietly begin warm-up warm-up...
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Wonderful Wednesday, Sept.24
• Take your seat• Take out your Warm-Ups • Quietly begin Warm-Up
Warm-UpChoose 2 of the following moral debates and answer the questions in 3-5 sentences each. Copy the questions you
choose.• If a Walmart employee gets trampled on Black Friday, is
Walmart responsible? Why/why not?• Should companies be responsible for the pollution they
create? Why/why not?• If a car maker knowingly makes a bad car, should the
government punish him? Why/why not?• Is it OK for the US to invade other countries in the name
of spreading Democracy? Why/why not?
Today’s Agenda
• Warm-Up / Class Discussion
• FN: “The Rise of Big Business”
• Homework:• Read Ch. 3 Sec. 3, answer HW Questions
Criticism and Defense of Big Business
• Social Darwinism• the rich are rich because they work hard and are smart and
talented• the poor are lazy and stupid
• Social Gospel• rich people should NOT give money directly to the
poor instead they should carefully manage their charity for the greatest good…libraries, schools, hospitals
• Laissez-faire• the government should not regulate business because it
makes businesses less efficient
Immigration
• New Immigration• Immigrants in the first half of the 1800s
came from Northern Europe• German, English, French, Dutch, Irish
• In the late 1800s/early 1900s immigrants mostly came from Southern and Eastern Europe• Jewish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Russian
Push/Pull Factors
• Push Factors• Political & Religious Persecution• Poverty
• Pull Factors• Freedom• “Unlimited” Opportunity• Work
Nativism
• prejudicial reaction to the large wave of immigrants
• wanted to set quotas (limits) or stop the immigration of non-white, non-protestant people
• Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882• banned Chinese immigration and blocked
Chinese from becoming US citizens til 1943
• American Protective Association, 1887• tried to limit Catholic immigration into the US• also tried to ban Catholics from teaching in
public schools or holding office
Social Gospel Movement
• applied Christian beliefs to solve social problems• targeted poverty, inequality, liquor, crime,
racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war
• included groups like the YMCA and the Salvation Army• the YMCA (James Naismath) invented
basketball in 1891
Immigration
• Settlement Houses• Jane Addams set up Hull House
in Chicago to help immigrants adjust to America
• people donated time & money to help the poor
• provided day care, public baths, job training, and language lessons
• about 2,000 a week were helped• Addams promoted reforms for
workers’, women’s, and immigrant rights
• by 1911, there were over 1400 settlement houses in the US
• she won the Nobel Prize in 1931
The Statue of Liberty
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries sheWith silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, 1883
Immigrant Experience
• Ellis and Angel Island• Overcrowded Ethnic
neighborhoods• Dangerous working
conditions• Poor pay
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Part TwoCities and Cultural Trends
EQ: Why did immigrants come to the US, and how did they impact society?
Urbanization - Background
• the rapid growth of cities created new problems
• housing, transportation, water, and sanitation, firefighting and crime
• from 1820 to 1914 immigration exploded•30,000,000 Europeans•700,000 Asians•900,000 Latin Americans
Dawn of Mass Culture
• Americans began to share common culture more than ever before• newspaper circulation wars• rise of motion pictures (The Great Train
Robbery)• nickelodeon
• height of PT Barnum’s traveling circus