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Chapter 20 Toward an Urban America
Use the textbook, The American Journey, to prepare for this assessment on vocabulary of the time period.
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| emigrate | to leave one's homeland to live elsewhere |
| steerage | cramped quarters on a ship's lower deck for passengers paying lowest fares |
| assimilate | to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population |
| settlement house | institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries |
| ragtime | a type of music with a strong rhythm and a lively melody popular in the early 1900's |
| slum | poor, crowded, and run -down urban neighborhoods |
| gilded age | the name associated with America in the late 1800's, referring to the exravagant wealth and terrible poverty |
| tenement | a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety |
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