HI 112, Spring 2011 Tona Hangen Worcester State University The Rise of an Urban Order 7 February 2011 John Sloan, “Hairdresser’s Window” (1907)

Dedication of “Liberty Enlightening the World,” 28 October 1886

Ellis Island Immigrant Detention Area

Living in US but born elsewhere 7.9% of total population 13.6% of total population Source: We the Foreign Born, US Census Publication, Sept 1993

Jacob Riis, “How the Other Half Lives” - Five cents lodging, Bayard St (1889)

George Bellows, “New York” (1911)

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Tom Watson, Populist leader

William Jennings Bryan

Election of

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