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Unit 5 vocabs
chapter 5 vocabularies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrant | immigrants from southern and western Europe, from 1870 til outbreak of World War 1 |
| steerage | worst accomodation on the ship, most immigrants traveled in it |
| Ellis Island | third class passenger had to get through a legal and medical inspection, New York |
| Angel Island | Island in San Francisco Bay, often filtered out Chinese people |
| Americanization | programs that helped newcomer learn English and adopt American dress and diet |
| nativism | belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited immigrations by Chinese laborers and limited theri civil rights |
| urbanization | number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically |
| rural-to-urban migrant | people who move from farm to the city and worked often in factories |
| skyscraper | skyline first time recognizable by skyscraper, steel frames and used artistic designs |
| mass transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively |
| suburb | clean and quiet perimeter where middle and upper class people built their houses |
| tenement | low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible |
| Gilded Age | last decades of the nineteenth century, new lifestyle |
| conspicuous consumerism | people wanted and bought the many new products on the market |
| mass culture | rich and poor same clothing styles but different quality, many households same gadgets, toys,... |
| vaudeville | medley of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy |
| "melting Pot" | people of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture, except Asians |
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