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Ch 5 vo.
Vocab of Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrant | southern and eastern European immigrants who arrived in the united states between 1880 and 1920 |
| steerage | third class accommodations on a steamship |
| Ellis island | island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station |
| Angel Island | immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910 |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants onto 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 the native born white Americans are superior to new comers |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of chines laborers |
| urbanization | expansion of cities or an increase in the number of people living i them |
| rural-to-urban migrant | person who moves from and agricultural area to a city |
| skyscraper | very tall building |
| Elisha Otis | perfected the elevator so that it wouldn't fall if the pulling rope broke |
| mass transit | public transportation system that carries large number of people |
| suburb | area surrounding a city |
| Frederick Law Olmstead | landscape engineer hired to design Fairmount Park |
| tenement | multistory building divided to apartments to house families |
| Mark Twain | famous novelist specializing i satire |
| Gilded Age | term coined by mark twain to describe the post-reconstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity |
| conspicuous consumerism | purchasing goods for the purpose of impressing others |
| mass culture | similar culture patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant who fought in the civil war |
| William Randolph Hearst | specialized newspaperman |
| Horatio Alger | novelist whose stories were based on people achieving something by hard work |
| vaudeville | type of show including dancing dinging and comedy sketches that became popular in the late nineteenth century |