In 1890s lynching reaches peal: wihtoutlaw whites used terror to retain dominance, overtime people living in the situation decided they wanted a better life. 2: attempt to survey black life, residential segregation. Tend to be protestants: new- from southern and eastern europe; greek, russian. Progressive movement: deal with cities, created problems with sewage, good idea to keep drinking water and sewage separate. 3: john snow, worried about housing, new professions invented, social work invented- job of figuring out what the problems in living of new immigrants were and help them, training young women to be wives and mothers. Blacks got none of those things: different treatment could be justified by eugenics, people like theodore roosevelt who inherited money. Made speeches about large families: campeign against inferior, eugenics hit its high point in the rise of the 3rd amendment. Treated as a sort of : multicultural option, on census obam is not listed as mixed race- he defines as african.

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