Progressive Era, The: Immigration Restriction
The massive waves of immigration from Eastern Europe and Italy during the decades between 1880 to 1910 prompt concern that the growing immigrant population is creating social problems for the United States Although there is wide disagreement on how ...
New Corporate Order, A: Growth of the Industrial Workforce
In the late 19th century, there is a dramatic expansion of industrial workers in the United States. Millions of laborers are drawn from the farm to industrial cities, lured by jobs and opportunity. Immigration increases because wages and living cond...
Restless Society: Changing Restrictive Immigration Quotas
The Immigration Act of 1965 attempts to open U. S. doors to Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asians. By the 2000 Asian and Latino populations mushroom, but only about 10% of new immigrants come from Europe.
Age of the City, The: Rise of Mass Consumption, The
Urban middle-class Americans are introduced to the fine art of "shopping" during the last decades of the 19th century. From 1880 onward there is the beginning of trade catalogues, national advertising and warehousing, and the creation of franchising...
World of Uncertainty: Changing Look of U.S. Society, The
The U.S. population is becoming larger, older, and more diverse at end of 20th century. Minority groups are forming their own collectives in order to define themselves economically, socially and politically. Feminist groups, the American Association...
1920s...Beyond the Glitter, The: Conflict of Cultures
The secular culture that emerges in the 1920s coexists with an older, more provincial sect that views this "new era" as a threat to their way of life. Prohibition fails, the Ku Klux Klan expands their targets to not only African Americans, but newly...