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Chapter 5 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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"New" Immagrant | Southern and European immigrants who arrived in the United States in a great wave between 1880 and 1920 |
Steerage | Third-class accomodations on a steamship |
Ellis island | Island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States |
Angel island | Immigrant processing station that opened in San Franciso Bay in 1910 |
Americaniization | Belief that assimilating immigrants into american society would make them more loyal citizens |
"Melting pot" | Society in which people of diffrent nationalities assimilate to form one culture |
Nativism | Belief that native-born white americans are superiour to newcomers |
Chinese Exlusion Act | 1882 law that prohiibited the immigration of chinese laborers |
Urbanization | Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living them |
Rural-to-Urban migrant | a person who moves from an agricultural area to city |
Skyscaper | Very tall building |
Mass transit | Public transportatioin system that carry large numbers of people |
Suburb | Resedential areas surrounding a city |
Tenement | Multistory building divided into apartments to houise as many families as possible |
Gilded Age | Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-recionstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity |
Conspicuous-Consumerism | purchasing of goods and services for the purpose of impressing others |
Mass culture | similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation,communication advertising. |
Vaudeville | type of show including: dancing,singing,and comedy sketches that became popular in the late nineteenth century |