Vocabulary
hire workers for jobs
What is a recruit?
Beginning in the 1890s, increasing numbers of immigrants came from these areas of Europe
What is southern and eastern Europe?
Multifamily urban dwellings, often overcrowded and unsanitary
What are Tenements?
Name two spectator sports.
What is baseball, football,or basketball?
corrupt head of NY's Tammany Hall's political machine
Who was Boss Tweed?
run down, crowded apartment buildings in cities
What is a tenement?
This is the method of travel used by nearly all immigrants.
What is a steamship?
Opened the Hull House in Chicago
Who is Jane Addams?
The language most immigrant children speak or try to learn at school?
What is English?
Founded in the late 1800's by social reformers to help the poor.
What are settlement houses?
colleges paid for by the sale of certain pieces of land
What is a land-grant college?
This was the immigration inspection station in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
The steel industry brought this main change to American architecture.
What are skyscrapers?
Exaggerated headlines, illustrations
What is yellow journalism?
Problems resulted from the overcrowding in city tenements.
What are unsanitary conditions, diseases, and crime?
to blend in with a larger group of people
What is assimilate?
In the late 19th century, anti-immigrant groups were on the rise.
What is nativism?
Residential neighborhoods outside of downtown.
What are suburbs?
a show with singing, dancing, and skits
What is vaudeville?
Forms of transportation for growing cities in the late 1800's to early 1900's
What are streetcars, cable-cars, subways, steel bridges?
A neighborhood where people of the same race, religion, or country live.
What is a ghetto?
This was one of the challenges faced by immigrants once they were admitted to the country.
What is finding a place to live, getting a job, unfamiliar language, unfamiliar culture
Built to assimilate and ease the transition of immigrants into the labor force by teaching them middle-class American values.
What are settlement Houses?
hands on learning, working with other students
What is John Dewey?
At the top of the economic and social ladder were the very rich. Underneath this was poverty, or very poor.
What is The Gilded Age?