Immigration
During the 1880s more than 5 million immigrants arrived in the United States—the majority of these _______ were from southern and eastern Europe.
What are new immigrants?
Elevated trains are examples of _____________________, or public transportation designed for many passengers.
What is Mass Transit?
cultural activities shared by many people
What is Mass Culture?
Became nationally famous for his design of Central Park in NYC.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
Many Chinese immigrants entered the United States through ________.
What is Angel Island?
Most immigrants traveled to America in ________________, where the cabins were hot, cramped, and foul-smelling.
What is steerage?
Known as the busiest immigration processing center on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
residential neighborhoods outside of cities
What are the suburbs?
Journalist and photographer famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The demand for public entertainment also led to the creation of ____________, such as New York’s Coney Island.
What is amusement parks?
Aid organizations that offered immigrants help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death.
What are Benevolent societies?
Many immigrants lived in poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings called ______.
What are tenements?
Giant retail shops that appeared in some cities during the late 1800s
What are department stores?
_______________ and Ellen Gates Starr moved into a run-down building in a poor Chicago neighborhood and turned it into Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
Workplaces in which employees endured long hours and hot, unhealthy working conditions.
What are sweatshops?
The “old immigrants” who arrived in America during the 1800s were from
What is northern Europe.
Some labor unions oppose immigration because they believed that _____.
What is immigrants would take away Americans' jobs?
The process in which immigrant families adopted some American beliefs and aspects of American culture.
What is assimilation?
_____ was the publisher of the New York Journal.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
The ________movement grew in the late 1800s and early 1900s to help city dwellers?
What is settlement house?
The percentage of people who arrived at Ellis Island who were not allowed into the country.
What is less than 2 percent?
_____ was a reformer who visited sweatshops and wrote about the problems there,
Who is Florence Kelley?
Architects such as _______ of Chicago began designing multistory buildings called skyscrapers.
Who is Louis Sullivan?
publisher of the New York World and first to add color comics to newspapers
Who was Joseph Pulitzer?
_______ were often forced to take low-paying industrial jobs because they lacked the skills needed to obtain higher-paying jobs.
What are New immigrants?