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chpt 5
chapter 5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. "new" immigrant | poor, catholic, or Jewish immigrants who were unskilled and were more likley to end up in cities |
| 2. steerage | the worst accomidations on a ship immigrants traveled on |
| 3. Ellis Island | where immigrants came into the U.S. off the coast of New York |
| 4. Angel Island | filtered out the Chinese immigrants |
| 5. Americanization | helped newcomers to the U.S. learn English, American dress, and diet |
| 6. "melting pot" | many different cultures from many different nations blended together into one culture |
| 7. nativism | the belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers |
| 8. Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. |
| 9. urbinization | the number of cities and the people in them increased dramitically |
| 10. rural-to-urban migrants | people who moved from farms to cities to work in factories |
| 11. skyscrapers | ten-story and higher buildings |
| 12. mass transit | publicsystems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensivley |
| 13. tenements | low cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze as many families together as possible |
| 14. conspicuous consumerism | people waned and bought many new products on the market |
| 15. mass culture | household things, toys, and food preferences were often the same from house to house |
| 16. vaudville | meledy of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy |
| 17. suburb | houses built in the cleaner parts of town |
| 18. Gilded Age | what is considered the last few decades of the nineteenth century |