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Immigration and Urbanization Chrestensen U.S. History In the note-taking column, record as many meaningful facts and ideas as you can. Use telegraphic sentences. Take Cornell notes in your interactive notebook during this presentation. Immigration Below: Angel The Chinese to California Island, Today The “Golden Door” and then. RR, then farming, mining, and domestic serv. Immigration A response to growth of immigration: Nativism Def: Overt favoritism toward native-born Americans Americanization movement Leads to Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 Anti-Chinese propaganda: Immigration The immigration of Europeans was also different Italians, Poles, Serbs, Russians, Austr-Hung. Jews and Catholics Mostly to the east Urbanization issues Most immigrants settled in “ghettos” based on their ethnicity or race (black) Poor crowd together in tenement housing Rich live in “uptown” apartments or houses Stay out of “The Bowery”! the city say, Better by far that I took Broadway; But I was out to enjoy the sights, There was the Bow'ry ablaze with lights; I had one of the devil's own nights! I'll never go there anymore. The Bow'ry, the Bow'ry! They say such things, And they do strange things On the Bow'ry! The Bow'ry! I'll never go there anymore! I struck a place that they called a "dive," I was in luck to get out alive; When the policeman heard of my woes, Saw my black eye and my batter'd nose, "You've been held up!" said the copper fly. "No, sir! But I've been knock'd down," said I; Then he laugh'd, tho' I could not see why! I'll never go there anymore! Urbanization issues NYC Housing Repairing transport. Clean water Crime Fire corruption Boss Tweed Bill the “Butcher” of the 5 Points MAYORS AND CITY COUNCILS WERE FOR SALE STREETS WERE UNPAVED AND FILLED WITH TRASH. SCHOOLS WERE IN BAD REPAIR MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION POLICE AND CIVIL SERVANTS WERE CORRUPT AND TOOK BRIBES AND PAYOFFS CITY SERVICES SUCH AS WATER, AND GAS WERE SOLD TO THE POLITICIAN’S FRIENDS who CHARGED HIGH PRICES BIG CITY BOSSES POSITIVES HELPED POOR IMMIGRANTS WITH FOOD AND JOBS THEY PERFORMED NEEDED FUNCTIONS THAT REGULAR CITY OFFICIALS COULD NOT NEGATIVES THEY WERE CORRUPT AND STOLE THE PEOPLE’S MONEY BOSSES PROTECTED VICE AND ENCOURAGED MONOPOLIES Go to “Gangs of NY” Municipal Reform Boodle is money accepted as a bribe. Municipal Reform Why were cities so corrupt? Cities grew so fast that local governments could not handle it. Businessmen were closely linked with bosses making corruption hard to fight. Honest Graft & Dishonest Graft • How did people justify running government like this?