Chapter 7 Urban
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- Old Immigration
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-Brought in Europeans familiar with the culture
-Highly Skilled
-Better jobs, invloved in politics
-Pre 1880 - New Immigration
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-Early 1900s
-Don't assimilate well with American culture
-Looked down upon
-Illiterate - Polish Immigrants
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-1850
-Illiterate
-Took jobs in stockyards, steel mills, factories
-Subject of discrimination
-Functioned like a serf society - Polish Catholic Church
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-Most vital Polish institution
-Provided cultural activities
-Helped them gain independence from RCC
-Was their way to keep their identity - Mundelein
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-German American who was an archbishop
-Put Polish priests in non-Polish institutions (Poles resisted his changes) - Italian Immigrants
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-Came to Chicago in large numbers
-Poor, and illiterate
-Planned only temporary stays
-Worked for/through the padrone - Padrone
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-Italian labor broker who spoke English
-Negotiated wages and found Italians work - Campanilisimo
- Entire villages immigrating at one time and staying together
- Contadini
- Means that you prefer to work indoors (like the steel mills)
- Eastern European Jews
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- Came from Austria-Hungary, Russia and Poland
- Lived in cheap, crowded, dangerous homes
- Not as assimilated as German Jews
- Most spoke Yiddush - Maxwell Street
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- Heart of Jewish neighborhood
- People from all over went to go shop/ sell - German Jews
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- Much more assimilated with the American culture
- Wanted to assimilate fellow Jews
- Started reform Judaism - Greek Town
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- Tightly knit community
- Greek men offered own establishments there
- Made it hard for Greeks to work with others - Czech Immigrants
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- Came in the 1850s
- Enjoyed politcal and economical success
- 98% were literate
- Tightly knit, yet established with other groups - Scandinavian Immigrants
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- Ahead of other ethnic groups
- Previously had built buildings
- Able to extend community