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Ch 5 vocabulary
| Word | Deffinition |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrant | People from southern and eastern Europe. |
| steerage | The worst accomodations on the ship. |
| Ellis Island | European immigrants arrived in NY harbor and were processed here. |
| Angel Island | Chinese and other Asian immagrants were processed here. |
| Americanization | helped newcomers learn english and adopt american dress and diet. |
| "melting pot" | white people of all differant nationalities blended to create a single culture. |
| nativism | a belife that native-born americans were superior to newcomers. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited immigration by chinese laborers. |
| urbanization | a time period in witch the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically. |
| rural-to-urban migrant | people who moved to cities. |
| skyscraper | ten-story and taller buildings with steel frames. |
| Elisha Otis | developed a safety elevator that wouldent fall if the lifting rope broke. |
| mass transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively. |
| suburb | housing in a cleaner quieter perimiter. |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | landscaper who designed fairmount park. |
| tenement | low cost multifamily housing. |
| Mark Twain | satirized american life in his novel the gilded age. |
| Gilded Age | the new life style that middle class americans adopted. |
| conspicuous consumerism | people wanted and bought many new products on the market. |
| mass culture | household gadgets toys and food preferacnes |
| Joseph Pulitzer | hugarian immagran who fought in the civil war. |
| William Randolph Hearst | jernalist and competitor. |
| Horatio Alger | wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work. |
| vaudeville | musical drama songs and off color comedy. |