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chapter 5 vocap
25 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. new immigration | southern & eastern European immigrant who arrived in world war 1 |
| 2. steerage | 3rd class accommodations on a steamship, which usually overcrowded and dirty |
| 3. Ellis island | island in New York harbor that served as in immigration station for million of immigrant arriving to the us |
| 4. Angel Island | immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1940 |
| 5. Americanization | belief that assimilating immigrant into american society would make them more loyal citizen |
| 6. melting plot | society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture |
| 7. negativism | belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers |
| 8. Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers |
| 9. urbanization | expansion of cities and/or an increase the number of people living in them |
| 10. Rural-to-urban migrant | a person who moves from an agricultural area to a city |
| 11. skyscraper | a very tall building |
| 12. Elisha Otis | developed a safety elevator that wold not fall if the lifting rope break |
| 13. mass transit | public transportation system that carry large numbers of people |
| 14. suburb | residential areas surrounding a city |
| 15. Frederick Law Olmsted | United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City |
| 16. tenement | multistory building divided into apartment to house as many families as possible |
| 17. Mark Twain | novelist (the gilded age) |
| 18. Gilded Age | term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by facade of prosperity |
| 19. conspicuous consumerism | purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others |
| 20. mass culture | similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising |
| 21. Joseph Pulitzer | a Hungarian immigrant who had fought in civil war |
| 22. William Randolph Hearst | competitor of Pulitzer |
| 23. Horatio Alger | wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work |
| 24. Vaudeville | type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches that becomes popular in the late 19th century |
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