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STEELE
STEELE-SSII-Ch. 5 Immigration and Urbanization - Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| people from southern and eastern Europe who were often unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish, and likely to settle in cities rather than on farms | new immigrants |
| the worst accommodations on the ship | steerage |
| a processing station where immigration officials decided who could stay in the United States | Ellis Island |
| immigrant processing station in San Francisco | Angel Island |
| programs that helped newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet | Americanism |
| society in which white people of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture | melting pot |
| the belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers | nativism |
| prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the U.S., and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| a period in America in which the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically | urbanization |
| people who moved from rural farms to cities | rural-to-urban migrants |
| buildings made with steel frames that are at least ten stories or taller | skyscrapers |
| creator of the safety elevator | Elisha Otis |
| public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively | mass transit |
| residential area surrounding a city | suburb |
| landscape engineer who designed Central Park in NYC and other urban parks | Frederick Law Olmsted |
| low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible | tenements |
| novelist who satirized American life as gilded, or having a rotten core covered with gold paint | Mark Twain |
| the last decades of the nineteenth century | Gilded Age |
| purchasing goods and services for the purpose of impressing others | conspicuous consumerism |
| similar culture patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising | mass culture |
| a newspaper publisher who was a competitor of Joseph Pulitzer | William Randolph Hearst |
| a novelist who wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work | Horatio Alger |
| a medley of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy | vaudeville |
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