Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Reading: 494-497, 554-555


Your reading over the weekend is very short, so I will not post specific reading questions. That does not, however, imply that I won't quiz you. Do your reading, plain and simple.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Questions: 545-551

FYC:

  1. What did the federal government do to help assimilate the new immigrants into American society?
  2. How did city politicians benefit from the new wave of immigrants?
  3. What is the "social gospel"?
  4. Who was Jane Addams, and what were settlement houses?
  5. What did the nativists blame the new immigrants for, and what other ways did they discriminate against the immigrants?