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Vocabulary
100
The way most immigrants traveled to the United States in the 1800s.
What is steerage?
100
Small apartments in city slum buildings.
What are tenements?
100
Cities bean to run out of space in their downtown areas, so architects used new technology to build these.
What are skyscrapers?
100
This became required in many northern states.
What is education or student attendance?
100
Conditions that drive people from their homes.
What are push factors?
200
The immigrant processing center located on the west coast of the United States?
What is Angel Island?
200
The Protestant idea that called on well-to-do members to assist the poor.
What is the Social Gospel?
200
Large retail shop offering a variety of goods in separate sections.
What are department stores?
200
The author that used his novels to poke fun at serious issues.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
Mandated the construction of fire escapes and decent plumbing systems.
What are building codes?
300
Promise of freedom, family or friends already settled in the United States, factory jobs available
What are pull factors?
300
The settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889.
What is Hull House?
300
Invention that allowed suburbs to develop.
What is the electric streetcar or trolley?
300
Two new reading trends developed in the late 1800s and earlyl 1900s.
What are magazines and dime novels?
300
The speech and habits of a particular region.
What is local color?
400
Mostly immigrated to the United States from Asia, as well as Southern and Eastern Europe.
What are "new" immigrants?
400
Kept factories out of residential neighborhoods.
What are zoning laws?
400
Successfully unites Americans by appealing to all classes and backgrounds.
What is entertainment?
400
Examples include large pictures, bold headlines, and stories about crime and scandal.
What is yellow journalism?
400
The process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to a new culture.
What is acculturation?
500
Sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born white Protestants.
What are nativists?
500
They lived outside the city center in neat houses. They also had a sense of community.
What is the urban middle class?
500
Two new types of entertainment (theater and music) developed during the late 1800s.
What is vaudeville and ragtime?
500
Writers who tried to show the harsh side of life as it was.
What are realists?
500
The movement of population from farms to cities.
What is urbanization?