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Chapter 5 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "New" Immagrant | Southern and European immigrants who arrived in the United States in a great wave between 1880 and 1920 |
| Steerage | Third-class accomodations on a steamship |
| 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 Franciso Bay in 1910 |
| Americaniization | Belief that assimilating immigrants into american society would make them more loyal citizens |
| "Melting pot" | Society in which people of diffrent nationalities assimilate to form one culture |
| Nativism | Belief that native-born white americans are superiour to newcomers |
| Chinese Exlusion Act | 1882 law that prohiibited the immigration of chinese laborers |
| Urbanization | Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living them |
| Rural-to-Urban migrant | a person who moves from an agricultural area to city |
| Skyscaper | Very tall building |
| Mass transit | Public transportatioin system that carry large numbers of people |
| Suburb | Resedential areas surrounding a city |
| Tenement | Multistory building divided into apartments to houise as many families as possible |
| Gilded Age | Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-recionstruction 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 advertising. |
| Vaudeville | type of show including: dancing,singing,and comedy sketches that became popular in the late nineteenth century |