Vocabulary
Process of adopting American culture
What is Assimilation?
Define Old Immigrants
What are immigrants who came from northern and western Europe before 1880?
What are they were overcrowded, had a lack of plumbing, few windows, and they were poorly maintained?
Why were African Americans moving to cities from the rural South in the 1890s?
What are to run from discrimination and find more work opportunities?
Why did Chicago grow so quickly in this period?
Organization by immigrants to offer help to other immigrants, providing help that the government didn’t
What is a Benevolent Society?
Define New Immigrants
What are immigrants from southern and eastern Europe after 1880?
How did new immigrants deal with the tough transition to American life?
What are they moved into neighborhoods with immigrants from the same area to be around foods, language, and culture?
How did steel affect the growth of cities?
What is taller buildings were now possible to build?
What problems occurred because cities grew so quickly?
What are more means of transportation and sanitation were needed?
System to move lots of people at the same time
What is Mass Transit?
What was steerage and why did many immigrants travel in steerage?
Why did so many immigrants take low-paying factory type jobs?
How did mass transit affect cities?
What are it allowed some people to move to suburbs and still work in cities?
***The suburbs were connected with the city by transit lines.***
How did city governments try to deal with these problems?
What are water purifications were built and public transportation systems were created?
Believed that there should be limits on how many immigrants were allowed into the country
What is a Nativist?
Ellis Island, El Paso, and Angel Island are all what?
What are Immigration Processing Centers?
Why did labor unions want to limit immigration?
What are they were worried that the immigrants would take the jobs from native-born Americans?
What helped mass culture form in this period?
What are newspapers and other publishing?
What was Florence Kelley’s role in curbing child labor?
What is she petitioned to end child labor?
A place that provided education and recreation in poor neighborhoods
What is a Settlement House?
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do and who was allowed into the country under the act?
What are Chinese immigrants were not allowed and only those whose fathers were US citizens were allowed entrance?
What were sweatshops?
What are textile manufacturing plants where it was hot and crowded with long hours and low pay?
Who designed Central Park and Washington D.C.?
Who was Frederick Law Olmstead?
What did Jacob Riis show the world?
What is he used photography to show the world inside the tenements?