Weekly Assignment: Urbanization and Immigrant Experiences in Late 19th Century America, Exercises of United States History

Download Weekly Assignment: Urbanization and Immigrant Experiences in Late 19th Century America and more Exercises United States History in PDF only on Docsity! Weekly Assignment #2 Read Chapter 18, “The Age of the City,” in Brinkley, and answer these questions: 1. How did the huge wave of immigration in the late 19th century relate to urbanization? 2. What factors determined how different immigrant groups advanced economically? How were immigrants encouraged to assimilate? What did that mean for their native cultures? 3. What challenges did the growth of the cities present? How did urban planners try to reshape the city? 4. How did urban bosses and political machines maintain their control over city politics? 5. Why did a new urban consumer culture arise? What changes did it bring to American households? 6. How was mass entertainment different from earlier types of leisure activities? 7. How did science, education and medicine change in the late 1800s? Read Chapters 9-17 of The Jungle, and answer these questions: 8. What was Jurgis’ experience with the Chicago political machine (the War Whoop League)? 9. What did he learn about how potted meat and lard were made? 10. Why did Marija get fired? What challenge did Ona face at work? 11. How did the packing houses use the speeding-up process and reduction of wages to manage labor costs? 12. How does Jurgis get injured and what problems does this cause for him and his family? What does the family do to get by? 13. Why was the fertilizer plant such a bad place to work? 14. What unsanitary practices were involved in making sausages? 15. What happened when Ona didn’t come for the second time? (through the end of chapter 17) docsity.com