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Chapter 5 Imm&Urban

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"new" immigrant Southern & European immigrants who arrived in th U.S. in a great wave.
steerage The worst accommodations on the ship.
Ellis Island Served as an immigration station.
Angel Island Designed to filter out Chinese immigrants.
Americanization belief that assimilating immigrants into american society would make them more loyal.
melting pot society where different nationalities assimilate to form one culture.
nativism belief that native born white Americans are superior to newcomers.
Chinese Exclusion Act law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
urbanization expansion of cities and/or increase in people living in them.
rural-to-urban migrant a person who moves from an agricultural area to a city.
skyscraper very tall building.
Elisha Otis developed a safety elevator that would not fall.
mass transit public systems that could carry large amounts of people fairly inexpensively.
suburb redidental areas surronding a city.
Frederick Law Olmsted landscape engineer that designed Fairmount park.
tenement low-cost mulitfamily housing.
Mark Twain american novelist that satirized american life in his novel, "The Gilded age."
Gilded Age the last decades of the ninteenth century.
conspicuous consumerism when people bought the many new products on the market.
mass culture household gadgets, toys, and food preferences were often the same from house to house.
Joseph Pulitzer Hungarian immigrant who fought in the civil war.
William Randolph Hearst Pulitzer's competition & creator of "Morning Journal."
Horatio Alger wrote about characters who succeeded by hard work.
vaudeville shows that were a medly of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy.
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