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Chapter 5 Imm&Urban
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrant | Southern & European immigrants who arrived in th U.S. in a great wave. |
| steerage | The worst accommodations on the ship. |
| Ellis Island | Served as an immigration station. |
| Angel Island | Designed to filter out Chinese immigrants. |
| Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrants into american society would make them more loyal. |
| melting pot | society where different nationalities assimilate to form one culture. |
| nativism | belief that native born white Americans are superior to newcomers. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. |
| urbanization | expansion of cities and/or increase in people living in them. |
| rural-to-urban migrant | a person who moves from an agricultural area to a city. |
| skyscraper | very tall building. |
| Elisha Otis | developed a safety elevator that would not fall. |
| mass transit | public systems that could carry large amounts of people fairly inexpensively. |
| suburb | redidental areas surronding a city. |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | landscape engineer that designed Fairmount park. |
| tenement | low-cost mulitfamily housing. |
| Mark Twain | american novelist that satirized american life in his novel, "The Gilded age." |
| Gilded Age | the last decades of the ninteenth century. |
| conspicuous consumerism | when people bought the many new products on the market. |
| mass culture | household gadgets, toys, and food preferences were often the same from house to house. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant who fought in the civil war. |
| William Randolph Hearst | Pulitzer's competition & creator of "Morning Journal." |
| Horatio Alger | wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work. |
| vaudeville | shows that were a medly of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy. |