Thursday, September 15th

We got our groups for our project: Taylor D, Taylor F, and Me!!

I HAVE SECTION 1!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ch. 7-Immigrants and Urbanization
Section 1: The New Immigrants
Section 2: The Challenges of Urbanization
Section 3: Politics in the Guilded Age

 

KEY QUESTIONS TO ANSWER!!!!!

 

Ch. 7.1:

-Why did immigrants come to the US?
-Where did immigrants come from?
-What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
-Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?

Ch. 7.2

-Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
-What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
-What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?

Ch. 7.3

-What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?
-Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.
-What caused all this corruption in government?
-What laws came about to reform government?
-Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland and William Mckinley were all presidents during the late 1800's. Were they a reform president or a status quo president?


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