The New Immigrants
The entry point for immigrants entering the U.S. on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
Urban neighborhoods.
What are slums?
What is jazz?
Sports that could be enjoyed as leisurely viewing.
What are spectator sports?
The entry point for immigrants entering the U.S. on the West Coast.
What is Angel Island?
Frederick Law Olmsted, with the "City Beautiful" Movement, created this.
What is Central Park?
What is realism?
Style of writing that focused on a particular region or country.
What is regionalism?
What was the movement that was anti-immigrant?
What is the Nativist Movement?
Buildings where families rented rooms in the cities.
What are tenements?
Method of journalism that exaggerates stories.
What is yellow journalism?
Variety shows that could include dancing, comedy, magic acts, etc.
What is vaudeville?
The main reason for immigrants coming to America.
What is persecution?
What are garbage accumulation and overflowing sewage?
Theaters that charged 5 cents for a short film - the start of today's multi-million dollar film industry.
What are nickelodeons?
Invented the "moving picture."
Who is Thomas Edison?
Becoming part of a culture.
What is assimilation?
The time period of illustrious wealth on top of hidden poverty.
What is the Gilded Age?
What is the difference between emigration and immigration?
Emigration: leaving your homeland for a new country
Immigration: entering a new country to live
Education that focused on teaching facts, good citizenship, and using hands on activities.
What is progressive education?