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Chapter 5
Immigration and Urbanization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States |
| 4. Angel Island | immigrant processing station 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 Americans 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 area to a city |
| 11. skyscraper | very tall building |
| 12. mass transit | public transportation systems 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 describe 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, communications, and advertising |
| 18. vaudeville | type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late nineteenth century |