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Chapter 5 vocab
Question | Answer |
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"new" immigrant | Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in a great wave between 1880 and 1920. |
steerage | Third class accommodations on a steamship. |
Ellis Island | A island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the U.S. |
Angel Island | Immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910. |
Americanization | A belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens. |
"melting pot" | A society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture. |
nativism | a belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers. |
Chinese Exclusion Act | A 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. |
urbanization | expansion of cities and/or and increase in the number of people living in them. |
rural-to-urban migrant | A person who moves from an agricultural area to a city. |
skyscraper | A very tall building. |
mass transit | Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people. |
suburb | Residential areas surrounding a city. |
tenement | A multistory building divided into apartments to house many familes as possible. |
Gilded age | A term coined by Mark Twian to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was charactized by a facade of prosperity. |
conspicuous consumerism | Purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others. |
mass culture | similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising. |
vaudeville | A type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late nineteenth century. |