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chapter 5 vocap

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1. new immigration southern & eastern European immigrant who arrived in world war 1
2. steerage 3rd class accommodations on a steamship, which usually overcrowded and dirty
3. Ellis island island in New York harbor that served as in immigration station for million of immigrant arriving to the us
4. Angel Island immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1940
5. Americanization belief that assimilating immigrant into american society would make them more loyal citizen
6. melting plot society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture
7. negativism 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 expansion of cities and/or an increase 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 a very tall building
12. Elisha Otis developed a safety elevator that wold not fall if the lifting rope break
13. mass transit public transportation system that carry large numbers of people
14. suburb residential areas surrounding a city
15. Frederick Law Olmsted United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City
16. tenement multistory building divided into apartment to house as many families as possible
17. Mark Twain novelist (the gilded age)
18. Gilded Age term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by facade of prosperity
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 the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising
21. Joseph Pulitzer a Hungarian immigrant who had fought in civil war
22. William Randolph Hearst competitor of Pulitzer
23. Horatio Alger wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work
24. Vaudeville type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches that becomes popular in the late 19th century
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