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ohs ushistory ch5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrant | people that have recently come from another country to permanently live America |
| steerage | the worst accommodations on a ship |
| Ellis Island | immigrants from east of America are processed here |
| Angel Island | immigrants from west of America are processed here |
| Americanization | helped newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet |
| "melting pot" | where white people of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture |
| nativism | the belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers |
| urbanization | where the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically |
| rural-to-urban migrant | A person who moves to the city from the country |
| skyscraper | steel buildings over ten stories high |
| Elisha Otis | developed a elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke |
| mass transit | public systems tat could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively |
| suburb | housing in the cleaner, quieter perimeter |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | designed Fairmount Park, Central Park, and many other parks |
| tenement | low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible. |
| Mark Twain | novelist |
| Gilded Age | a novel where Mark Twain depicted American society as gilded, or having a rotten core covered with gold paint |
| conspicuous consumerism | where people wanted and bought the many new products on the market |
| mass culture | where household gadgets, toys, and food preferences were often the same from house to house |
| Joseph Pulitzer | started a morning and evening paper |
| William Randoph Hearst | started a morning paper |
| Horatio Alger | novelist who wrote about characters who succeeded by working hard |
| vaudeville | musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy |
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