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vocabulary 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| New Immigrant | immigrants coming from europe such as spain, and italy. |
| steerage | The section of a passenger ship, originally near the rudder, providing the cheapest passenger accommodations. |
| ellis island | an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States |
| angel island | ngel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. |
| Americanization | assimilation into American culture |
| melting pot | a pot in which metals or other materials are melted and mixed. |
| nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants |
| chinese | of or relating to China or its language, culture, or people. |
| exclusion act | There have been three at Worldcons, two major/one minor, all of which ultimately drew negative responses from fandom. |
| urbanization | the condition of being urbanized |
| rural to urban migrant | People moving from rural (villages) areas of the country into cities. |
| skyscraper | a very tall building of many stories. |
| mass transit | public transportation, esp. in an urban area. |
| suburb | an outlying district of a city, esp. a residential one. |
| tenement | a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. |
| gilded age | In United States history, the Gilded Age was the period following roughly from the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century |
| conspicuous consumerism | is the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power — either the buyer’s income or the buyer’s accumulated wealth. |
| mass culture | the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media |
| vaudeville | a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance. |