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Ch. 5 Vocab,
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.new immigrant | European immigrants who arrived in the U.S. between 1880-1920 |
| 2.steerage | dirty and overcrowed accommodations on a ship |
| 3.Ellis Island | a place on the New York Harbor where most European immigrants would first arrive |
| 4.Angel Island | San Francisco Bay, Chinese and Asian immigrants would be processed 1910 |
| 5.Americanization | a belief that assisting immigrants into an american society would make them more likely to be loyal citizens |
| 6."melting pot" | America was said to be a melting pot, meaning that people from all different nations blend together to create a single culture |
| 7.nativism | a belief that said that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers |
| 8.Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 this act prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers |
| 9.urbanization | the number of cities and people living in them dramaticly increased |
| 10.rural-to-urban migrant | most people moved into cities and went from farm work to factories |
| 11.skyscraper | steel ten story plus builings |
| 12.Elisha Otis | 1850's, built a safety elevator that wouldn't fall if ropes broke |
| 13.mass transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively |
| 14.suburb | housing in cleaner, quieter areas away from the industrial cities |
| 15.Frederick Law Olmsted | a landscape engineer who designed fairmount park, central park, etc. |
| 16.tenement | low-cost multifamily housing designed to fit as many families as possible |
| 17.Mark Twain | author who wrote The Gilded Age. |
| 18.Gilded Age | a term by Mark Twain to describe the post Reconstruction era which characterized by their new lifestyle |
| 19.conspicuous consumerism | where people wanted and bought many new products |
| 20.mass culture | Household gadgets, toys, and food perferences were often the same from house house |
| 21.Joesph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant that fought in the Civil War and started a newspaper |
| 22.William Randolph Hearst | competitor to Hearst, wrote about the same thing |
| 23.Horatio Alger | author who wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work |
| 24.vaudeville | theaters showing musical dramas, songs, and comedy |
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