Week Five 美国历史第五周.ppt

Week Five 美国历史第五周 美国历史第四讲（2011-03-24）Chapter 18 Age of the City 1860---20% urban people 1860-1910 urban places from 392 to 2,200 Chapter Review During the Gilded Age the number of cities in America grew rapidly, and so did the population of individual cities. due to rural Americans moving from the farms and villages to the city welcome the new arrivals? seen as alien (老外) in custom and in language non-northern Europeans as inferior to suggest literacy test (文化考试) for incoming immigrants Chinese excluded in 1882 from immigration----the bill “Chinese Exclusion Act 1882” 排华法案 Immigration