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Chapter 5 Vocab list
Chapter 5 Vocabulary
| 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 Fransisco 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 new comers |
| chinese exclusion act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of chinese laborers |
| urbanization | expansions of city and/or an increase in 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 | deveolped a saftey elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke |
| mass transit | public transportation system that carry large number of people |
| suburb | residential areas surround city |
| frederick law olmsted | landscape engineer |
| tenement | multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible |
| mark twain | novelist that satirized american life in his 1973 novel, the glided age |
| gilded age | term coined by mark twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by a facuade of prosperity |
| conspicuous consumerism | purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others |
| mass culture | production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines |
| Joseph Pulitzer | a Hungarian immigrant who fought n the civil war |
| William Randolph Hearst | reporter |
| 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 nineteenth century |
| tenement | multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible |
| mark twain | novelist that satirized american life in his 1973 novel, the glided age |
| gilded age | term coined by mark twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by a facuade of prosperity |
| conspicuous consumerism | purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others |
| mass culture | production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines |
| Joseph Pulitzer | a Hungarian immigrant who fought n the civil war |
| William Randolph Hearst | reporter |
| 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 nineteenth century |
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