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Chapter 5 pg. 126
Immigrants and Urbanization 1865-1914
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "New" Immigrant | People come to America for freedom. |
| Steerage | A part of a ship that people traveled at the cheapest rate. |
| Ellis Island | Europe immigrants had to show that they had money and a skill. Most of them arrived in New York Harbor. |
| Angel Island | Chinese and Asian immigrants crossed the Pacific Ocean, arriving at San Francisco Bay. |
| Americanization | Helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet. |
| "Melting Pot" | Settlement workers and immigrants alike believed that American society. |
| Nativism | A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | The immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the U.S. and forbade the naturalization of Chinese resients. |
| Urbanization | The number of cities and people living in them increased. |
| Rual-To-Urban Migrants | The move from farm to factory was wrenching. |
| Skyscrapers | A ten-story and taller buildings had steel frames and used artistic designs to magnify their imposing height. |
| Elisa Otis | Developed a safety elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke. |
| Mass Transit | Public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively-reshaped the nation's cities. |
| Tenements | Low-cost of multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible. |
| Mark Twain | He depicted American society as gilded, or having a rotten core covered with gold paint. |
| Gilded Age | A new lifestyle that middle-class Americans adopted during this period-shopping, sports and reading popular magazines and newspapers-contributed to the development of a more commonly shared American culture that would persist for the next century. |
| Conspicuous Consumerisn | People wanted and bought many new products on the market. |
| Mass Culture | Household gagets, toys, and food preferences were sometimes the same from house to house. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant who had fought in the Civil War. |
| William Randolph Hearst | Had controversy with Pulitzer in making novels. |
| Horatio Alger | Wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work, while Henry James and Edith Wharton questioned a society based upon rigid rules of conduct. |
| Vaudeville | Were meadley shows of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy. |
| Suburb | Houses in a cleaner, quieter perimeter. |
| Fredrick Law Olmsted | A landscape engineer. |
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