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Narrowing the Welcome Mat

• Anti-Immigration movement similar to 1840s
  returned during 1880s.
• Slavs
• Baltic's
• Anglo-Saxon races felt the new immigrants would
  ruin their race and create inferior offspring.

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• Immigrants declined urban government
• Worked for super low wages
• Weakened unions
• Undermined work strikes

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• Unwanted doctrines were introduced
• Socialism
• Communism
• Anarchism

• Anti-foreign organizations were created
• American Protective Association (APA)

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• Anti-Immigrant Legislation
• Banned paupers, criminals, and convict immigrants
  (1882)
• Banned workers who were under substandard working
  contracts (1885)
• Chinese exclusion Act (1882)

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• Statue of Liberty
• Gift from France
• 1886
• Very Ironic

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Churches Confront the Urban Challenge

• Declining urban government
• Poverty
• Suffering
• Plight
• Were churches doing the right thing?
• Evil over Good
• Emphasis on material gains

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Churches Confront the Urban Challenge

• New generation of revivalists
• Dwight Lyman Moody
• Adapted old-time religion to new city life
• Moody Bible Institute
• Chicago 1889
• Roman Catholic and Jewish faiths gained large
  popularity

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Churches Confront the Urban Challenge

• Many new religions
• Over 150 religions in USA
• Salvation Army
• Church of Christ
• YMCA and YWCA Organizations