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Chapt. 5 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "New" Immigrant | Immigrants from southern to eastern Europe. |
| Steerage | The worst accommodations on a ship. |
| Americanization | Programs that help newcomers accustom to American culture. |
| "Melting Pot" | Society in which people of different nationalities coexist into a single culture. |
| Urbanization | In which the number of cities and the people who lived in them dramatically increased. |
| Rural-to-Urban Migrant | A person who moves from an agricultural area to a city. |
| Skyscrapers | A very tall building. |
| Mass Transit | Public system that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively. |
| Suburbs | Residential areas surrounding a city. |
| Tenement | Low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze as many families as possible. |
| Gilded Ages | Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by the appearance of prosperity. |
| Conspicuous Consumerism | When people wanted and bought many new products on the market. |
| Mass Culture | Similar cultural pattern in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising. |
| Vaudeville | Type of show (Dancing, singing, comedy) that became popular in the late nineteenth century. |
| Nativism | The belief that native-born white American males were superior to newcomers. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | The act that prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the Civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents. |