VIPs
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
This is the main immigration center on the east side of the United States for European Immigrants
What is Ellis Island?
100
This is what we call a place where cultures blend
What is melting pot?
100
This the word we use to describe the growth of cities from industrialization
What is urbanization?
200
This is the immigration station used primarily for Asian Immigrants
What is Angel Island?
200
This was a place where workers work long hours under poor conditions for low wages
What is a sweatshop?
200
Who were considered immigrants?
Who were the Polish, Russians, Italians?
300
This new type of building helped cities to absorb millions of people
What is skyscraper?
300
Where did the immigrants mainly go to seek jobs?
What are cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco?
400
This is the word for run-down and overcrowded apartment houses.
What is tenements?
400
This law banned or prevented Chinese from immigrating to the United States
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
What were some negative effects of urbanization?
What are overcrowding and disease?
500
This is what we call a neighborhood with overcrowded and dangerous housing
What is slum?
500
This is the process of blending into society by adopting the dominant culture
What is assimilation?
500
The system of trains used to move people around cities
What is rapid transit?
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