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Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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1."New" Immigrant Unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish and likely to settle in cities rather than farms.
2.Steerage Worst accommodations on a ship.
3.Ellis Island Processing station in the East where immigration decided who could stay in the United States.
4.Angel Island Processing station in the West that was more strict than the East on who it let into the United States.
5.Americanization Programs helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.
6."Melting Pot" A society in which white people of all nationalities blended to create a single culture.
7.Nativism A belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers.
8.Chinese Exclusion Act Prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers.
9.Urbanization In the late 19th century when the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically.
10.Rural-to-Urban Migrant The move from farm to factory.
11.Skyscraper Ten-story and taller buildings had steel frames and used artistic designs to magnify their imposing height.
12.Mass Transit public systems that that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively.
13.Suburb Housing in the cleaner and quieter perimeter.
14.Tenement Low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible.
15.Gilded Age The last decades of the 19th century.
16.Conspicuous Consumerism People wanted and bought the the many
17.Mass Culture The spread of transportation, communication, advertising.
18.Vaudeville A medley of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy.
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