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chapter 5 voca.
chapter 5 vovab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. new immagrant: | southern and eastern European immagrants who arrived in the united states in a great wave between 1880 and 1920. |
| 2.steerage: | third class accommodations on a steamship , which which were usually over crowded and dirty. |
| 3. Ellis Island: | island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the united states . |
| 4.Angel Island: | immigrant proccessing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910. |
| 5.americanization : | belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens. |
| 6.melting pot: | society in which people of diffrent nationalities assimilate to form one culture. |
| 7.nativism: | belief that native -born white Americans are superior to newcomers. |
| 8.Chinese exclusion act : | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers |
| 9. urbanization: | expansions of cities and/and or an increase in the number of people living in them . |
| 10.rural-to-urban migrant: | a person who moves from an agricultural area to a city . |
| 11.skyscraper: | very tall building . |
| 12. Elisha Otis: | developed a safety elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke. |
| 13.mass transit: | public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people . |
| 14.suburb: | residential areas surrounding a city . |
| 15.Fredrick Law Olmsted: | landscape engineer who designed Fairmount Park. |
| 16.tenement: | multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible. |
| 17.mark twain: | novelist ; satirized American life in his 1873 novel, The Guilded Age. |
| 18.Guilded Age: | the new lifestyle that middle-class Americans adopted during this period. |
| 19.conspicuous consumerism : | purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others. |
| 20.mass culture: | similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of transportation,communication , and advertising. |
| 21.Joseph Pulitzer : | a Hungarian immigrant who fought in the Civil War. |
| 22.William Randolph Hearst: | competitor of john Pulitzer |
| 23.Horatio Alger: | wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work. |
| 24. Vaudeville: | shows were a medley musical drama , songs, and off color comedy. |
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