Ethnic Groups
Came primarily from the Southern part of their homeland
Italian immigrants
There was a huge gap between ____ in 1910.
the way the very wealthy and most other people lived
This has no more exoskeleton
Skyscraper
What are "loanwords"?
words taken over by speakers of one language from a different language
Important center opened in 1892 and closed in 1924.
Ellis Island
Took the fullest advantage of public schools
Jews
How most Americans thought of immigrants
as workers, a labor source
English visitor W.G. Marshall observed that New York was a "maze of ____."
telephone and telegraph wires
German-based language printed in the Hebrew alphabet
Yiddish
The "center of sin" in the early 1900s
The Bowery
The ___ Theatre was very popular on the ower East Side
Yiddish
Ellis Island was often thought of as this by worried immigrants.
Island of fears
Was changing from horses to engine-driven during the 1910s
Transportation
Highly contageous eye disease that would get an immigrant rejected at Ellis Island.
Trachoma
____ was the second-largest city in the world, behind ____ in the early 1900s
New York... London
The ____ Daily Forward
Jewish
What made tenements firetraps?
The narrow stairways
What was first elevated but later moved underground?
Mass transit in NYC
Cities were centers of the ___ Revolution.
Industrial
Just north/northwest of Chinatown and the Lowe East Side
Little Italy
This ethnic group was likely to attend the opera when they could afford it.
Italians
One tenement dweller got this with her water when she was washing her hands.
a rat
There was little of this in a dumbell tenement
air/light
Slang term for a newcomer
greenhorn
What major American entertainment industry was NYC the first capital of until the 1920s?
Movies