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Ch 5 vocab 8/26/10
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrant | Southern and Eastern European immigrants arrived in the U.S. in a great wave between 1880-1920 |
| steerage | third-class accommodations on a steamship, which were usually overcrowded and dirty |
| Ellis Island | island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the U.S. |
| Angel Island | Immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910 |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them 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 | very tall building |
| Elisha Otis | 1850 developed a safety elevator that wouldn't fall if the lifting rope broke |
| mass transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of the people fairly inexpensively |
| suburb | residential areas surrounding a city |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | landscape engineer that designed Fairmount Park |
| tenements | low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible |
| Mark Twain | Novelist who satirized American life in his 1873 novel, "the Gilded Age" |
| Gilded Age | term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-reconstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity |
| conspicuous consumerism | purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others |
| mass culture | similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising |
| Joseph Pulitzer | a Hungarian immigrant who had fought in the Civil War, became a publisher |
| William Randolph Hearst | Pulitzer's competition whose "Morning Journal" employed same tactics |
| Horatio Alger | novelist who wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work |
| vaudeville | type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late 19th century |
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