Chapter 5 vocab
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| "new" immigrant | Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in a great wave between 1880 and 1920.
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| steerage | Third class accommodations on a steamship.
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| Ellis Island | A island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the U.S.
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| Angel Island | Immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910.
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| Americanization | A belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens.
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| "melting pot" | A society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture.
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| nativism | a belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers.
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| Chinese Exclusion Act | A 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
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| urbanization | expansion of cities and/or and increase in the number of people living in them.
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| rural-to-urban migrant | A person who moves from an agricultural area to a city.
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| skyscraper | A very tall building.
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| mass transit | Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people.
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| suburb | Residential areas surrounding a city.
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| tenement | A multistory building divided into apartments to house many familes as possible.
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| Gilded age | A term coined by Mark Twian to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was charactized by a facade of prosperity.
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| conspicuous consumerism | Purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others.
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| mass culture | similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising.
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| vaudeville | A type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late nineteenth century.
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