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US History Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. "new" immigrant | unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish |
| 2. steerage | worst accommodations on a ship |
| 3. Ellis Island | Beginning in 1892, European immigrants were processed at Ellis Island |
| 4. Angel Island | In 1910, Chinese and other Asian immigrants were processed at Angel Island |
| 5. Americanization | helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet |
| 6. melting pot | white people of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture |
| 7. nativism | a 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 already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents |
| 9. urbaniztion | the number of cities and people living in them increasing dramatically |
| 10. rural-to-urban migrant | moved to cities in the 1890s |
| 11. skyscraper | ten-story and taller buildings had steel frames and artistic design to magnify their imposing height |
| 12. mass transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively |
| 13. suburb | housing in the cleaner, quieter perimeter |
| 14. tenement | low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible |
| 15. Gilded Age | the new lifestyle middle-class Americans adopted |
| 16. conspicuous consumerism | people wanted and bought the many new products on the market |
| 17. mass culture | Household gadgets, toys, and food preferences were often the same from house to house |
| 18. vaudeville | a medley of musical dreams, songs, and off-color comedy |