City Life
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| old immigrants | immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain
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| new immigrants | immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe
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| steerage | an area below a ship's deck where immigrants often traveled
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| benevolent societies | societies that offered help to immigrant families
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| sweatshops | places where workers labored long hours under poor conditions for low wages
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| tenements | Poorly built
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| Chinese Exclusion Act | law banning immigration by Chinese people for ten years
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| Mass transit | public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people
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| suburbs | residential areas surrounding a city
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| Joseph Pulitzer | publisher of the New York World newspaper
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| department stores | larger stores that are organized into many separate departments and offer many product lines
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| Frederick Law Olmsted | landscape architect who designed Central Park in New York City and the Tome School Port Deposit campus
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| Jacob Riis | photographer and journalist who exposed the horrible conditions in New York City tenements
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| Settlement Houses | neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education
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| Jane Addams | co-founder of Hull House
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| Hull House | Chicago's most famous settlement house
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| William Randolph Hearst | publisher of the New York Journal
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| assimilation | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
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| Florence Kelley | reformer who worked to pass child labor laws
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