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Chapter 5 Vocabulary
U.S. Hisory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| South and Eastern European Immigrats who arrived in the U.S. in the great wave between 1880 and 1920. | "New" Immigrants |
| 3rd class accomidations on a steamship, which were usually overcrowded and diry. | Steerage |
| An islansd in new York haror that served as an immigration arriving to the U.S. | Ellis Island |
| Immigrant processing station that opened in San Fransisco Bay in 1910. | Angel Island |
| Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens. | Americaization |
| Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture. | Melting Pot |
| Belief that native-born white Ameicans ar superior to new comers. | Nativism |
| A person who moves from an agricultural area to a city. | Rural-TO-Urban Migrants |
| Ten-story steel framed buldings. | Skyscrapers |
| Developed a safety elevator that wouldn't fall if the lifting rope broke. | Elisha Otis |
| Prohibited chinese immigration and limited the civil rights of chinese immigrants already in the U.S. | Chinese Exclusive Act |
| Public transportation system that carry large numbers of people. | Mass Transit |
| Housing in cleaner, quieter areas. | Suburbs |
| Designed different parks in different areas. | Fredrick Law Olmsted |
| Low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeez in as many families as possible. | Tenements |
| Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them. | Urbanization |
| He depicted American society as gilded, or having a roten core covered wih gold paint. | Mark twain |
| The last decades of the 19th century | Gilded Age |
| Purchasing of goods and for the purpose of impressing oters. | Conspicious Consumerism |
| Similar Cultur patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising | Mass Culture |
| A Hungarian Immigrant who fought in the civil war and creator of the morning paper titled "The World". | Joseph Pulitzer |
| A compeditor with Joseph Pulitzer with the morning papers who also had a successful paper. | William Randolph Hearst |
| Wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work. | Horatio Alger |
| Type of show including, dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the 19th century | Vauldeville |
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Marq Hudson
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