Title: The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
AN EVOLVING SOCIETY
The Birth of the NAACP
Temperance and Prohibition
The Settlement House Movement
RELIGION IN AMERICA
Church Membership at the Turn of the Century
ADVANCES IN TRANSPORTATION
A FASHIONABLE ERA
The Gibson Girl
The Price of Fashion—Prices at the Pegues, Wright Department Store, Junction City, Kansas; 1909
LADIES' WEAR:
MEN'S WEAR:
A Mail-Order House
ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

Content: Native-born Americans often felt as if "foreigners" were overrunning their country. Immigrants drew further mistrust from native-born Americans when they established insular neighborhoods. In these neighborhoods they could live and work while speaking their native languages, eating ethnic foods, and participating in their own traditions. Many Americans resented the immigrants' desire to live in the United States without fully abandoning their native customs. Isolated from much of the larger culture, many immigrants relied on their families, their churches, and ethnic organizations for support. Some native-born Americans feared that immigrants would accept lower wages, thereby taking away jobs from citizens. In reality, the jobs that the immigrants were able to secure were often the lowest paid, most physically intensive positions available. They toiled in mines, mills, factories, sweat-shops, and on shipping docks. The tensions encountered by immigrants to the United States were more than matched by those facing African Americans and other racial minorities during the first decade of the 1900s. A strict color line separated the races, and there were few chances for white and black cultures to make meaningful contact.