People
developed safety brake elevators, leading to them being more widely used
Elisha Otis
Reasons why people leave their home country
push factor
The growth and development of cities
urbanization
Immigration processing center in New York
ellis island
The last few decades of the 1800s, marked by high levels of economic and population growth
Gilded Age
city planner, co-designed Central Park
Frederick Law Olmsted
reasons why people choose to immigrate to a specific country
pull factor
The process of planning the layout and functionalities of a city
city planning
Immigration processing center in San Francisco
angel island
all people, despite socio-economic status, having the same things
mass culture
Hungarian immigrant, sensationalist journalist
Joseph Pulitzer
Immigrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe during the Gilded Age
new immigrants
this became popular during the Gilded Age, allowed people to move around for cheap
public transportation
Preferring people born in your own country to immigrants
nativism
apartment buildings that would house large numbers of working class individuals and families
tenements
Wrote stories about accomplishing the American Dream
Horatio Alger
Immigrants coming from Northern and Western Europe during the mid 1800s
old immigrations
Dividing areas of land for specific uses
zoning
Multiple cultures mixing together to form one mass culture
melting pot
buying the new and most expensive products on the market as a symbol of wealth
conspicuous consumerism
Jacob Riis
The lowest and cheapest passage on a ship, most immigrants traveled this way to America
steerage
middle and upper class people moved here because of overcrowding in cities
suburbs
americanization
shows that combined comedy, music, and dancing
vaudeville