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cha.5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "new" immigrants | Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the United States |
| steerage | third-class accommadations on a steemship ,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 |
| 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 new comers |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of chines laborers |
| urbanization | expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them |
| rural-to-urban migrants | a person who moves an agricultural area to a city |
| skyscrapers | very tall building |
| Masstransit | public transportation system that carry large numbers of people |
| suburbs | residential areas surrounding a city |
| tenements | multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible |
| Gilded Age | term coined by Mark Twain to describe the past 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 |
| vaudeville | type of show, including dancing,singing,and comedy sketches,that become popular in the late nineteenth century |