The new cities' glittering consumer economy was symbolized especially by the rise of

large, elegant department stores.

One of the most diffcult new problems generated by the rise of cities and the urban American life-style was

disposing of large quantities of consumer-generated waste material.

Two new technological developments of the late nineteenth century that especially contributed to the spectacular growth ofcities in America and elsewhere around the world were the

electric trolley and the skyscraper.

Among the factors driving tens of millions of European peasants from their homeland to America and elsewhere in the late nineteenth century were the

rapid rise of population and cheap American food imports.

Besides providing direct services to immigrants, the reformers of Hull House worked to implement social refonns such as

antisweatshop and child labor laws to protect women and child laborers.

The religious groups that grew most dramatically because of the New Immigration were

Jews, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox.

The phrase "social Gospel" refers to the

efforts of Christian reformers like Walter Rauschenbusch to apply their religious beliefs to new social problems.

Traditional American Protestant religion received a substantial blow from the

biological ideas of Charles Darwin.

Unlike Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois advocated

advanced education and complete political and social equality for blacks.

In the late nineteenth century, American colleges and universities benefited especially from

federal and state land-grant assistance and the private philanthropy of wealthy donors.

The widely popular American social reformers Henry George and Edward Bellamy advocated

utopian reforms to end poverty and eliminate class conflict.

Authors like Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Jack London turned American literature toward a greater concern with

social realism and contemporary problems.

Drawing on European models, American urban planners like Daniel Burnham believed that

a dense concentration of urban skyscrapers and apartments was the best way to inspire civic pride and eliminate slums.

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The new cities' glittering consumer economy was symbolized especially by the rise of	large, elegant department stores.
One of the most diffcult new problems generated by the rise of cities and the urban American life-style was	disposing of large quantities of consumer-generated waste material.
Two new technological developments of the late nineteenth century that especially contributed to the spectacular growth ofcities in America and elsewhere around the world were the	electric trolley and the skyscraper.
Among the primary courfries from which many of the New Immigrants came were	Poland and Italy.
Among the factors driving tens of millions of European peasants from their homeland to America and elsewhere in the late nineteenth century were the	rapid rise of population and cheap American food imports.
Besides providing direct services to immigrants, the reformers of Hull House worked to implement social refonns such as	antisweatshop and child labor laws to protect women and child laborers.
The one immigrant group that was totally banned from America after 1882, as a result of fierce nativist agitation, was the	Chinese.
The religious groups that grew most dramatically because of the New Immigration were	Jews, Roman Catholics, and Orthodox.
The phrase "social Gospel" refers to the	efforts of Christian reformers like Walter Rauschenbusch to apply their religious beliefs to new social problems.
Traditional American Protestant religion received a substantial blow from the	biological ideas of Charles Darwin.
Unlike Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois advocated	advanced education and complete political and social equality for blacks.
In the late nineteenth century, American colleges and universities benefited especially from	federal and state land-grant assistance and the private philanthropy of wealthy donors.
The widely popular American social reformers Henry George and Edward Bellamy advocated	utopian reforms to end poverty and eliminate class conflict.
Authors like Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Jack London turned American literature toward a greater concern with	social realism and contemporary problems.
Drawing on European models, American urban planners like Daniel Burnham believed that	a dense concentration of urban skyscrapers and apartments was the best way to inspire civic pride and eliminate slums.

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