Chapter 5 Vocab.
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| New Immigrant | unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish and likely to settle in cities
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| Steerage | part of ship for cheep travel
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| Ellis Island | place where immigrants were processed
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| Angel Island | processing place for immigrants from Asia countries
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| Americanization | program to help newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet
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| Melting Pot | white people of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture
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| Nativism | belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers
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| Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited immigrations of Chinese laborers, limited civil rights and forbade naturalization of Chinese residents
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| Urbanization | the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically
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| Rural to Urban migrant | the move from farms to factories
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| Skyscrapers | 10+ story buildings
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| Elisha Otis | developed a safety elevator
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| Mass Transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively
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| Suburb | housing in a quieter, cleaner perimeter
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| Frederick Law Olmstead | landscape engineer hired to design Fairmount
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| Tenement | low cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible
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| Mark Twain | satirized American life in his novel, The Gilded Age
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| GIlded Age | last decades of the 19th century
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| Conspicuous Consumerism | people wanted and bought the many new things on the market
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| Mass Culture | household gadgets, toys and food were often the same from house to house
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| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrants that new all about newspapers
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| William Ramdolph Hearst | Pulitzers first competitor
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| Horatio Alger | wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work
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| Vaudeville | shows that were a medley of musical drama, songs, and off color comedy
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