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Chapter 5 Vocab. His
Chapter 5 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New Immigrant | unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish and likely to settle in cities |
| Steerage | part of ship for cheep travel |
| Ellis Island | place where immigrants were processed |
| Angel Island | processing place for immigrants from Asia countries |
| Americanization | program to help newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet |
| Melting Pot | white people of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture |
| Nativism | belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited immigrations of Chinese laborers, limited civil rights and forbade naturalization of Chinese residents |
| Urbanization | the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically |
| Rural to Urban migrant | the move from farms to factories |
| Skyscrapers | 10+ story buildings |
| Elisha Otis | developed a safety elevator |
| Mass Transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively |
| Suburb | housing in a quieter, cleaner perimeter |
| Frederick Law Olmstead | landscape engineer hired to design Fairmount |
| Tenement | low cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible |
| Mark Twain | satirized American life in his novel, The Gilded Age |
| GIlded Age | last decades of the 19th century |
| Conspicuous Consumerism | people wanted and bought the many new things on the market |
| Mass Culture | household gadgets, toys and food were often the same from house to house |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrants that new all about newspapers |
| William Ramdolph Hearst | Pulitzers first competitor |
| Horatio Alger | wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work |
| Vaudeville | shows that were a medley of musical drama, songs, and off color comedy |