HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dancehall
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More than 9 million immigrants arrived in the us between the end of the. Change in immigration pattern in the us: used to be western europeans, now is mostly eastern europeans, class boundaries are now coinciding with racial and ethnic boundaries. Industrialists believed in economic growth so they wanted more immigrants: the average american was not happy. Nativist response: white, anglo-saxon americans, disliked the asians because they didn"t have the same religion and were so foreign looking. Takes until 1920 for the census to notes that more people live in urban settings than rural settings. The changing face of cities: steel encourages the building of high-rises and railroads, with the rise of mass transit, cities can spread out drastically. The emergence of central business districts organized by ethnicity and race: governments start putting money into electricity, subway/streetcar, sewage systems, etc, specialized shops start to disappear and be replaced by the department store.
