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Vocabulary
Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| new immigrant | europeans who arrived to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920 |
| steerage | accomidations make for the poor immigrants on the boat to america |
| ellis island | island off the coast of New York that was an immigration processing station, it was pretty and mostly for europeans |
| angel island | immigration processing station in the San Francisco Bay that was for asian immigrants, it looked like a prision |
| "melting pot" | when people of different nationalities come together to form one culture |
| nativism | the belif that native-born americans were superior to others |
| chinese exclusion act | Act passed that didnt allpy and chinese people into the united states |
| urbanization | expantion of cities or an increase in people living in a city |
| rural-to-urban migrant | a person who moves from a farm to the city |
| skyscraper | tall building |
| mass transit | public transportation systems |
| suburb | residential area surrounding cities |
| tenement | multistory buildings set up like appartments to house multiple families |
| gilded age | it was the post-Reconstruction age according to Mark Twain |
| conspicuous consumerism | purchasing goods to impress another person |
| vaudevil | a type of show like dancing, singing, or comedy |
| mass culture | similar culture patterns in a society |
| americanism | when the immigrants had to learn about the U.S., they had to learn stuff like the government |
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