Vocabulary
Arrived later, mostly from southern and eastern Europe, and came from many different cultures and religions. Many were unskilled laborers.
What are New Immigrants?
Opposed immigration because they feared immigrants would take jobs from native-born Americans and change American culture.
What are Nativists?
Banned Chinese immigration for ten years, due to the nativists' opposition to immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Immigrants from Europe were processed here.
What is Ellis Island?
The challenges faced by immigrants.
What are language barriers, housing, and job discrimination?
Came mainly from northern Europe in the mid-1800s. Most were Protestant, skilled workers, or farmers.
What are Old Immigrants?
Publisher of New York World newspaper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
Newspapers, such as those published by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, spread shared stories and comics.
Department stores and amusement parks became popular gathering places.
Shared cultural activities—like fairs, public parks, and entertainment.
What helps create a sense of community or -Mass Culture?
Immigrants from Asia were processed here.
What is Angel Island?
Increased Immigration led to this.
What is Rapid Urban Growth?
Organizations that offered help to immigrant families in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death.
They were important because they helped new immigrants adjust to life in the U.S., providing support and community in unfamiliar surroundings.
What are Benevolent Societies?
Publisher of New York Journal newspaper
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
Made cities more modern and efficient, grew up instead of out, skyscrapers
What are the advances in technology, such as steel construction and the safety elevator?
Immigrants from Mexico were processed here.
What is El Paso, Texas?
This caused sanitation problems and unsafe living conditions.
What is overcrowding?
The process in which immigrant families adopted some American beliefs and aspects of American culture
Journalist and photographer who exposed the horrible conditions in
New York City tenements
Demolished minority communities to make way for an open public space in New York.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
Place in the center of the trade in lumber, grain, and meat via railroads.
What is Chicago?
The results of air pollution and diseases that killed numerous people, specifically babies, before the age of 5.
What are firefighters, police officers, and water purification systems?
Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities.
What are settlement houses?
Chicago reformer who worked to pass child labor laws
Helped convince lawmakers in Illinois to pass a law limiting work hours for women and preventing child labor.
This was the most famous settlement house. The staff served the needs of immigrant families. They helped them in the process of assimilation. They provided English classes, day care, cooking and sewing classes, and other services.
What is the Hull House?
What are skills are lacking for modern manufacturing or industrial jobs?