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SS chapt 9
New York: A National Leader
Question | Answer |
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urban | People who live in a city |
rural | The countryside including farms, small villages, and unsettled land |
tenements | A crowded, poorly maintained apartment building |
sweatshop | A factory where workers are paid low wages and work in unheathly conditions |
Grand Central Terminal | Large train station built in New York |
Ellis Island | Island in New York Bay; served in immigration center from 1892 to 1954 |
Polonia | A Polish neighborhood in Buffalo formed in Broadway and Fillmore Avenue |
Adirondack Mountains | Mountain range in northeastern New York |
Corneiius Vanderbilt | Businessperson who began the New York Central Railroad |
George Eastman | Inventor of a new kind of film that made it easier to take photographs |
Jacob Riis | A newspaper reporter who wrote about and took photographs of immigrants to show that their living conditions needed to be improved |
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi | French sculptor who designed who designed the Statue of Liberty |