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