New Immigrants
To leave someone's homeland to live somewhere else.
What is emigrate?
This type of residence was often run-down and crowded.
What is a tenement?
A type of music that had a syncopated melody.
What is ragtime?
Before 1865 most "old" immigrants to the USA were from here.
What is Northern and Western Europe?
It was completed in 1865 and helped tremendously with communication.
What is the Transatlantic telegraph cable?
To become part of a larger culture.
What is assimilate?
Along with economic troubles, this condition also drove people to emigrate.
What is unfair treatment?
This type of journalism was based on sensational stories.
What is yellow journalism?
This group was an exception from the "old" European immigrants.
What are enslaved African Americans?
This was completed in 1869 and help people relocate.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This person felt that immigrants would take away their jobs and bring crime into their towns.
What is a nativist?
He designed NY'c Central Park and several parks in Boston.
Who was Frederick Law Olmsted?
After the Civil War American artists and musicians began to develop their won style that reflected this.
What is life in America?
In the mid 1800's the "new" immigrants began coming from here.
What is Eastern and Southern Europe.
Starting in 1892 immigrants first stop on American soil was here.
What is Ellis Island?
Cramped quarters on the lower decks of ships.
What is the steerage section?
This New York bridge opened in 1883.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
Writer Edith Wharton described lives of these Americans.
Who are upper-class Easterners?
After 1900 many immigrants began coming from this Western country.
What is Mexico?
This geographic features limited population growth in southern Florida.
What are the Everglades?
People who share a common culture or heritage>
What is an ethnic group?
In 1888 Richmond, Virginia pioneered the use of this.
What is the trolley car?
A favorite pastime for Americans was rooting for their home team in these activities.
What are spectator sports?
After the 1900's many immigrants came from these Eastern countries.
What are China and Japan?
In 1906 this heavily populated western coast city was rocked by an earthquake.
What is San Francisco, California?