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Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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"New" Immigrant Unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish, and likely to settle in cities.
Steerage Part of ship for cheap travel.
Ellis Island Place where immigrants were processed at.
Angel Island Processing place for immigrants from Asian countries.
Americanization Program to help newcomers learn English and adapt to 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 immigration 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.
Skyscraper 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 Park.
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 immigrant that new all about newspapers.
William Randolph Hearst Pulitzer's 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.
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