Ch. 5-1
These are immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, often unskilled, poor, and likely to live in cities.
What are "new" immigrants.
This is the expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them.
What is urbanization?
This person described the Gilded Age as a period where prosperity covered underlying social problems.
Who is Mark Twain?
What are Push Factors?
What group of people were attracted to the cities in the late 1800s because factories paid in cash and agriculture was becoming less profitable?
Who are farmers?
This is the purchasing of goods or services for the purpose of impressing others.
What is conspicuous consumerism?
Opportunity, jobs, family already in the U.S. (or new country) are these?
What are Pull Factors?
This used electricity of carry large numbers of people efficiently, changing the make-up of cities.
What is mass transit?
This motivated middle-class families to change, resulting in women increasingly working, men commuting, and families spending less time at home as a whole.
What is advances in consumer products and transportation?
These are third-class accommodations on passenger ships.
What is steerage?
This is a small apartment building that was often overcrowded, unsanitary, and poorly ventilated.
What is a tenement?
These two produced newspapers with large circulation and sensational content, spreading mass culture through publication.
Who are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
This person publicized information about tenement conditions to persuade people to improve housing and sanitation in cities.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This person's stories of the Gilded Age differed from Mark Twain's because this person focused on how hard work leads to success, while Twain critiqued superficial prosperity.
Who is Horatio Alger?