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HIstory 8-Ch.20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emma Lazarus | The American poet whose poem is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty |
| Ellis Island | The government reception center in New York that registered new immigrants. |
| Angel Island | The government reception area in San Francisco Bay that processed Asian immigrants. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | The law that prohibited Chinese workers from entering the United States for 10 years. |
| Immigration Act of 1917 | A law that required imigrants to be able to read and write in some language |
| emigrate | to leave one's homeland to live elsewhere |
| ethnic group | a minority that speaks a different language or follows different customs than the majority of people in a country. |
| steerage | cramped quarters on a ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares |
| sweatshop | a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions |
| assimilate | to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population |
| Jacob Riis | A journalist who wrote, "How the Other Half Lives." This book showed the terrible conditions of the tenements and helped establish housing codes. |
| Jane Addams | Established Hull House in Chicago, one of the most famous settlement houses. |
| Elisha Otis | Invented the safety elevator |
| Louis Sullivan | The architect who gave style to the skyscraper. |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | A leader in the City Beautiful movement who designed Central Park in NYC and as well as several parks in Boston. |
| tenement | a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, usually with little sanitation and safety. The apartment buildings of the slums |
| slum | poor, crowded and run-down urban neighborhoods |
| suburb | residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of the improvements in transportation |
| The Gilded Age | The name associated with America in the 1800s, referring to the extravagant wealth and the terrible poverty that lay underneath |
| settlement house | An institution located in a poo neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries and classes in English |
| Booker T. Washington | An educator who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to train teachers and to provide practical education for African Americans. |
| Andrew Carnegie | A wealthy steel industrialist who pledged to build a library in any city that would pay for its operating costs |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Purchased the "New York World" and built up its circulation with catchy headlines and illustrations |
| Paul Lawrence Dunbar | The son of former slaves who wrote poetry and novels. Was the first African American writer to gain fame world wide. |
| Mary Cassat | An artist who was influential in the French Impressionist school of painting. |
| land-grant college | originally, an agricultural college established as a result of the 1862 Morrell Act that gave states large amount of federal land that could be sold to raise money for education. |
| yellow journalism | writing which exaggerates sensational, dramatic, and gruesome events to attract readers, named for stories that were popular during the late 1800s |
| realism | an approach to literature, art and theater that shows things as they really are |
| regionalism | in art or literature, the practice of focusing on a particular region of the country |
| ragtime | a type of music with a strong rhythn and a lively melody with accented notes that was popular in the early 1900s |
| vaudeville | variety shows with dancing, singing, comedy and magic acts. |
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