Term | Definition |
Americanization | belief that bringing immigrants into America would make them loyal citizens |
Urbanization | the number of cities and people living in them rose drastically |
Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law, that forbids the Chinese laborers to immigrate |
Suburbs | housing in the cleaner, more private area of town |
Nativiism | belief that native born white Americans are of higher power to new people |
Skyscraper | 10 story, tall, steel frame designed to appear larger than actual |
Mass Transit | reshaped nations cities by carrying a lot of people with expensive public services |
Angles Island | in 1910, San Francisco Bay, an immigration station |
Conspicuous Consumerism | people bought new products from the markets |
New Immigrant | a great wave of southern and eastern Europeans arrived in the United States between 1880-1920 |
Gilded Age | last decades of the 19th century |
Steerage | 3rd class accommodations overcrowded and dirty |
Mass Culture | phenomenon |
Vaudeville | medley of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy shows |
Rual-to-urban-immigrant | move cities in the 1890's |
Tenements | housing designed to cram loads of families at a law cost |