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Chapter5 vocab Stine
US history Chapter 5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrant | Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the United States in a great wave between 1880 and 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 United States. |
| 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 from different nationalities assimilate to form one culture |
| 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 them |
| Rural-to-Urban migrant | A person who moves from an agricultural area to a city |
| Skyscaper | a very tall building |
| Mass transit | Public transportation system that carry large numbers of people |
| Suburb | residential areas surrounding a city |
| Tenement | Multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible |
| vaudeville | Type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late nineteenth century |
| Elisha Otis | Developed a safety elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke |
| Mark Twain | Satirized American life in his novel, The Gilded Age, 1873 |
| William Randolph Hearst | Had a paper called the 'Morning Journal' and believed his paper was to inform people and stir up controversy |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant who had fought in the civil war. Started a morning paper called 'The World' |
| Horatio Alger | Wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | A landscape engineer who designed Fairmount Park |
| Nativism | Belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers |
| Conspicuous consumerism | people wanted and bought 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 |
| Gilded Age | Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by a façade of prosperity |
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