to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population
What is assimilate?
100
an approach to literature, art, and theater that shows things as they really are
What is realism?
100
in art or literature, the practice of focusing on a particular region of the country
What is regionalism?
100
where immigrants entered the U.S. from the west
Where is San Francisco Bay?
100
Name two forms of recreation.
What is art, music, watching sports, playing sports, drama?
200
building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety
What is tenement?
200
poor, crowded, and run-down urban neighborhoods
What are slums?
200
to leave one's homeland to live elsewhere
What is emigrate?
200
where immigrants entered the U.S. from the east
What is Ellis Island?
200
Name 3 reasons why people left their homelands for the U.S.
What is poverty, better opportunities/jobs, farming, discrimination?
300
cramped quarters on a ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares
What is steerage?
300
gave states large amounts of land that could be sold to raise money for education
What are land-grant colleges?
300
institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English.
What is settlement house?
300
literacy requirement for immigrants to enter the U.S.
What is Immigration Act of 1917?
300
Name 2 problems that arose in cities due to rapid growth.
What is overpopulation, crime, health problems?
400
person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants
Who is nativist?
400
minority that speaks a different language or follows different customs than the majority of people in a country
What is ethnic group?
400
blended into U.S. society; could speak English
What is old immigrant?
400
Name the 2 classes of people.
What is Low (poor), Middle, and High (wealth) class?
400
What was the importance of bridges?
What is linked cities, made travel easier, could live outside of the city?
500
residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation
What is suburbs?
500
name associated with America in the late 1800s, referring to the extravagant wealth of a few and the terrible poverty that lay underneath
What is Gilded Age?
500
didn't blend into U.S. society; couldn't speak English
What is new immigrant?
500
Name two new forms or improvements of transportation
What are subways, trolley cars, paved roads, railroads?
500
T or F: Immigrants didn't play an enormous part in the growth of cities.