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Ch. 5
Chapter 5
Term | Definition |
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1. "new" immigrant | Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920 |
2. steerage | worst place on the ship, lower deck with no private private cabins, crowded and dirty |
3. Ellis Island | island in New York Harbor where immigrants stayed after arriving to the United States |
4. Angel Island | opened in 1910 and was designed to filter out Chinese Immigrants |
5. Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens |
6. "melting pot" | people from different nationalities came together to form one culture |
7. nativism | belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers |
8. Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigrants of Chinese laborers |
9. urbanization | number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically |
10. rural-to-urban migration | a person who moves from an agricultural area to a city |
11. skyscraper | very tall building |
12. mass transit | public transportation systems that carry large groups of people |
13. suburb | residential area surrounding a city |
14. tenement | big building dividing into apartments to house many people |
15. Gilded Age | term Mark Twain came up with to describe the post-Recontruction era |
16. conspicuous consumerism | people wanted and bought the many new products on the market |
17. mass culture | similar culture patterns in a society as a result of transportation, communication, and advertising |
18. vaudeville | type of show that became popular in the late nineteenth century ( dancing, singing, comedy sketches) |