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U.S. History
Immigration and Urbanization
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new"immigrants | Southern and Eastern Euopean immigrants who arrived in the United States in a great wave between 1880 and 1920 |
| Steerage | the worst accommodations on the ship |
| Ellis island | island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States |
| Angel island | immigrant processing station that opened in San Franciso Bay in 1910 |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make then more loyal citizens |
| "melting pot" | society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture |
| Nativism | belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers |
| Urbanization | expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them |
| Rural-to-urban migrant | a person who moves from an agricultural area to a city |
| Skyscraper | a very tall building |
| Elisha Otis | who invented safety device that prevented elevators from falling |
| Mass transit | public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people |
| Suburb | residential areas surround a city |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | who designed Fairmount Park, and NYC's Central Park |
| Tenement | multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible |
| Mark Twain | novelist: wrote the Gilded Age |
| Gilded Age | term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity |
| Conspicous consumerism | which people wanted and bought the many new products on the market |
| Mass culture | similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising |
| Joseph Pulitzer | started the morning paper, the World and Evening Word. Wanted to inform people and stir up controversy |
| William Randolph Hearst | published the Morning Journal |
| Horatio Alger | novelist who wrote about characters that succeeded through hard work |
| Vaudeville | type of show , including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that because popular in the late 19th century. |
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