Immigration
Immigration 2
Lifestyles
Urbanization
Miscellaneous
100
The lowest level (class and importance) of the ships that transported immigrants
What is steerage?
100
An immigrant who is not likely to encounter prejudice was usually this religion
What is Protestant?
100
A form of entertainment featuring comedy, song and dance.
What is Vaudeville?
100
Tall buildings with steel frames
What are skyscrapers?
100
Taco salad with moose meat and lots of shredded cheese.
What is Mrs. Sorensen's favorite dinner?
200
The rapid growth of cities and their populations
What is urbanization?
200
The reason most new immigrants lived in cities.
What is to be close to their jobs.
200
This is what John Wanamaker used to attract customers to his department store.
What is newspaper advertisements
200
Multi-family housing that was often overcrowded and unsafe
What is a tenement?
200
This is another name for free time
What is leisure time?
300
The blending of many people to create a single culture
What is melting pot?
300
This is why Americans began moving from rural to urban areas.
What is so they could be closer to the jobs.
300
He owned and published many popular newspapers of the Gilded Age.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
300
A public system for moving many people inexpensively
What is mass transit?
300
Schools began teaching these as a result of the need for more trained workers
What are practical subjects like science and wood working?
400
The place in New York where most European immigrants were processed.
What is Ellis Island?
400
This religious affiliation would cause the LEAST amount of prejudice
What is Protestant?
400
He wrote about how hard work can lead to success in America
Who is Horatio Alger?
400
Neighborhood on the outskirts of a city
What is the suburbs?
400
This is the reason Mark Twain coined the term "Gilded Age"
What is "it is shiny on the outside, tarnished within"
500
Opportunities that lured people to America from Europe and other countries.
What is pull factor?
500
Label for the last half of the 19th century.
What is Gilded Age?
500
This is the term meaning similar preferences across society.
What is mass culture?
500
A person who moved from an agricultural area to an urban area to be closer to good jobs.
What is a rural-to-urban migrant?
500
A situation like war and poverty in Europe that makes people want to leave
What is a push factor?
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