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U.S history vocab
chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrants | unskilled, poor, catholics and jews from southern and eastern europe |
| steerage | a crowded and dirty cabin in the bottom of a ship where new immigrants traveled, wort accomidations on a ship. |
| Ellis island | where the new immigrants were processed when arriving in new york. |
| angle island | where chinese and asian immigrants were processed when ariving to San Fransisco |
| Americanization | teaching immigrants the culture language and way of living of americans |
| "melting Pot" | a mix of different cultures all blended together to make one united culture |
| nativism | belief that native born white americans were better than new comers. |
| chinese exclusion act | 1882- prohibited immigration by chinese laborers, limmited the civil rights of chinese immigrants already in the united states, and forbade the naturalization of chinese residents. |
| urbanization | number of cities and people in them increased rapidly |
| rural-to-urban migrant | moving from farm to facotry in the late 1890's |
| sky scrapers | 10 story or taller buildings built with steel |
| Elisha Otis | devoloped the saftey elevator that wouldnt fall if the cord broke in the 1850's |
| mass transit | a transportation system that carried many people for little cost |
| suburb | housing in a quieter cleaner place |
| Fredrick Law Olmsted | a landscaping engineer that disigned Fairmount park |
| tenement | multi-family housing that could fit many families |
| Mark Twain | novelist that wrote the gilded age 1873 |
| Gilded age | the last decades of the 19th century |
| conspicuous consumerism | people wanted and bought many new products in the market |
| mass culture | when toys gadgets and food products were basically the same in evry household |
| Josheph Pulitzer | a hungarian immigrant that fought in the civil war who knew a lot about newspapers |
| william Randolph hearst | a competetor who had a journal - morning journal |
| Horatio alger | wrote about people who suceeded in hard work |
| vaudeville | shows of murical drama, songs and off-color comedy |
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