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In his Main-Travelled Roads, local colorist described the drab and often lonely life on late nineteenth century America's farming frontier.
The so-called were a substantial minority of immigrants to America in the late nineteenth century who intended to remain temporarily, then return home as relatively wealthy men.
The 's resistance to what its members called "the Catholic menace" illustrated late nineteenth-century nativism in America.
, author of How the Other Half Lives, provided a dramatic description, in both words and photographs, of slum life in late nineteenth century America.
Architect was the leader of those in his profession who insisted that the design of urban skyscrapers must be beautiful, but must also reflect their function.
By extending their tracks, companies speeded suburban growth because they assured homebuyers of efficient and relatively inexpensive transportation to work.
won the heavyweight championship in 1882 and became one of the most popular professional boxers of all time.
Walter Camp was a major innovator in the sport of , establishing most of its modern rules.
An increasing proportion of slum dwellers in late nineteenth-century America were , but, while the church provided welfare, its leaders seemed unconcerned with the social causes of poverty.
Supporters of the movement believed that churches should tend to improving the lives of the poor, rather than individual salvation.
was the Social Gospel movement's most influential preacher.
Community centers called were established in immigrant neighborhoods by idealistic, young, college-educated women to guide and assist the urban poor.
Social worker Jane Addams founded Chicago's , the most famous of America's settlement houses.
Under the system, a contractor provided unskilled Italian immigrant workers to American employers in return for a handsome payment.
Beginning in the 1880s, America's "new" immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe; "old" immigrants had come predominantly from .
