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CH: 5 Immi und Urban

Vocab for Chapter 5

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1. "New" Immigrants Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Russian Empire, Greece)
2. Steerage Third Class accommodations on steamships, usually overcrowded
3. Ellis Island Eastern Seaboard Immigration Processing Center (Located in NY Harbor next to Liberty Island)
4. Angel Island Western Seaboard Immigration Processing Center (Located in SF Bay near Alcatraz Island)
5. Americaniation The process of becoming an American, helping Immigrants learn English, and dress and eat like Americans
6. "Melting Pot" The belief that America included many cultures rather than just one
7. Nativism The belief that native-born whites were superior to Immigrants
8. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Prohibited the Immigration of Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese Immigrants already in the US, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents
9. Urbanization The process of moving from Farms to cities
10. Rural-to-Urban Migrant Someone who moved from the country to a city
11. Skyscrapers Steel buildings 10+ stories high
12. Elisha Otis Inventor of the Safety Elevator
13. Mass Transit Public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively
14. Suburbs The area between the city and rural area
15. Frederick Law Olmsted Archetect that designed Central Park, Fairmount Park, and Palo Alto Park
16. Tenements Cheap low income housing
17. Mark Twain American Satirist
18. Gilded Age Last decades of the 1800s
19. Conspicuous Consumerism When many people want and buy many new products on the market
20. Mass Culture When many households hold the same gadgets, toys, and food preferences
21. Joseph Pulitzer Hungarian Immigrant that published the newspaper 'World' and soon later started publishing the 'Evening World', this is one of the first modern newspaper
22. William Randolph Hearst Publisher of the 'Morning Journal'
23. Horatio Alger Wrote books focusing on succeeding through hard work
24. Vaudeville Shows that were a medley of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy. Later became "Straight, Clean Variety Shows"
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