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Term | Definition |
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1."NEW" IMMIGRANT | Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the UNITED STATES in a great wave between 1880 and 1920. |
2.Steerage | Third-class accommodations on a steamship, which were usually overcrowded and dirty. |
3.Ellis island | Island in NEW YORK HARBOR that served as an immigration stations for millions of immigrants arriving to the UNITED STATES. |
4.Angel island | Immigrant processing stations that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910. |
5.Americanization | Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens. |
6."Melting pot" | Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture. |
7.Nativism | Belief that native-born white AMERICAN are superior to newcomers. |
8.Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of CHINESE LABORERS. |
9.Urbanization | Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them. |
10.Rural-to-urban migrant | A person who moves from an agricultural are to a city. |
11.Skyscraper | Very tall building. |
12.Mass transit | Public transportation system that carry large numbers of people. |
13.Suburb | RESIDENTIAL areas surrounding a city. |
14.Tenement | Multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible. |
15.Gilded Age | Term coined by Mark twain to described the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity. |
16.Conspicuous Consumerism | Purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others. |
17.Mass culture | Similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation,communication, and advertising. |
18.Vaudeville | Type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late nineteenth century. |