2nd 9 wks vocab-immigrant
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| emigrate | to leave one's homeland to live in another country
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| ethnic group | minorities that speak different languages or follow different customs from most people in a country
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| steerage | cramped noisy quarters on the lower decks of a ship
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| assimilate | to become part of something, such as part of a country's culture
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| tenement | an apartment building in which several families rented rooms
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| slum | poor, run down neighborhood where these buildings were located
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| suburb | residential area located outside of a city center
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| Gilded Age | both the extravagant wealth of the late 1800s and the terrible poverty that lay underneath
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| realism | the writing that described the real lives of people of the time
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| regionalism | writing that focused on a particular part of the country
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| ragtime | music with complex rhythms that dominated popular music for about 20 yers near the turn of the century
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| vaudeville | vareity shows of the early 1900s with dancing, singing, comedy, and magic acts
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| sweatshop | a shop where workers worked for long hours at low wages with unhealty conditions
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| settlement house | a place where the provided community services like medical care
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