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Chapter 5
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"New Immigrant" | Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the United States in a great wave between 1880 and 1920. |
Steerage | Third-class accommodations on a steamship, which were usually overcrowded and dirty. |
Ellis Island | Island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States. |
Angel Island | Immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910. |
Americanization | Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens. |
"Melting pot" | Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture. |
Nativism | Belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers. |
Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. |
Urbanization | Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them. |
Rural-to-Urban Migrant | A person who moves from an agricultural are to a city. |
Skyscraper | Very tall building |
Elisha Otis | Developed a safety elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke. |
Mass Transit | Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people. |
Suburb | Residential areas surrounding a city. |
Frederick Law Olmsted | A landscape engineer who designed Fairmount Park. |
Tenement | Multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible. |
Mark Twain | A novelist who satirized American life in his novel "The Gilded Age" |
Gilded Age | Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity. |
Conspicuous Consumerism | Purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others. |
Mass Culture | Similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising. |
Joseph Pulitzer | A Hungarian immigrant who had fought in the Civil War. |
William Randolph Hearst | Pulitzer's competitor in the newspaper business. |
Horatio Alger | A novelist who wrote about characters who succeeded by harsh work. |
Vaudeville | Type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late nineteenth century. |