Chapter 5 Vocab
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| 1.New immigrant | Beginning in The 1880s,southern and eastern european immigrants started to arrive in the U.S.
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| 2.Steerage | The worst accommidations on a ship,in lower decks with no private cabins,crowded and dirty.
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| 3.Ellis Island | Island in new york harbor, where the immargrants started being proccessed in 1892.
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| 4.Angel Island. | where Chinese and other Asian immigrants were processed in San Francisco Bay
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| 5.Americanization | In settlement houses,these programs were ran to help newcomers learn english,and adopt american dress and diet.
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| 6.Melting Pot | White people of all different nationalitys blended together to creat a single culture.
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| 7.Nativism | A belief that native-born white americans were superior to newcomers.
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| 8.Chinese Exclusion Act | In 1882, the act prohibited immigration by chinese laborers.
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| 9.Urbanization | Number of citites and people living in the citites increased dramatically.
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| 10.Rural-to-urban migrants | A person who moves from a agricultural area the city.
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| 11.Skyscrapers | A 10 story or taller building.(VERY BIG)
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| 12.Mass Tansit | Public systems that could carry large number of people failry inexpensivley.
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| 13.Suburbs | The cleaner,quiter,residential areas surrounding a city.
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| 14.Tenements | Low-cost multifamily housing designed to sueeze in as many families as possible.
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| 15.Gilded Age | Last decades of the nineteenth century,middle class americans adopted a new lifestyle during this.
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| 16.Conspicuous Consumerism | People wanted and bought the many nre products on the market.
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| 17.Mass Culture | Household gadgets,toys,and food prefrences were often the same from house to house.
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| 18.Vaudeville | Shows that include a medley of musical drama,songs, and off color comedy.
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