chapter 5 vocab
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| 1. "new" immigrant | poor, catholic, or Jewish immigrants who were unskilled and were more likley to end up in cities
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| 2. steerage | the worst accomidations on a ship immigrants traveled on
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| 3. Ellis Island | where immigrants came into the U.S. off the coast of New York
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| 4. Angel Island | filtered out the Chinese immigrants
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| 5. Americanization | helped newcomers to the U.S. learn English, American dress, and diet
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| 6. "melting pot" | many different cultures from many different nations blended together into one culture
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| 7. nativism | the belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers
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| 8. Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants in the U.S.
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| 9. urbinization | the number of cities and the people in them increased dramitically
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| 10. rural-to-urban migrants | people who moved from farms to cities to work in factories
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| 11. skyscrapers | ten-story and higher buildings
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| 12. mass transit | publicsystems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensivley
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| 13. tenements | low cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze as many families together as possible
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| 14. conspicuous consumerism | people waned and bought many new products on the market
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| 15. mass culture | household things, toys, and food preferences were often the same from house to house
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| 16. vaudville | meledy of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy
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| 17. suburb | houses built in the cleaner parts of town
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| 18. Gilded Age | what is considered the last few decades of the nineteenth century
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