| A | B |
|---|
| immigrant | a person who move from one country to another |
| Old Immigrant | before 1880, mainly from Northern and Western Europe |
| New Immigrant | After 1880, mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe |
| steerage | bottom of the boat, cheapest ticket used by immigrants to cross the Atlantic |
| tenements | croweded, run-down, filthy aparments in cities |
| nativists | people against immigration |
| immigrant jobs | tough, hardwork, unskilled, low paying and undesirable |
| Ellis Island | immigration processing center in NY Harbor |
| Jane Addams | founded the first settlement house in the US named the Hull House. Served as a community center for urban poor. |
| Jacob Riis | wrote "How the Other Half Lives", a book about life in the tenements |
| realist/realism | Writing style that presented accurate images of American society. Explored issues of everyday people - both good and bad. |
| Samuel Clemens | Wrote under the name Mark Twain. Topics often dealt with life on the Mississippi River and life out West. Used local color in his work. (wrote Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn) |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | banned Chinese immigration to the US for 10 years |
| Immigration Restriction League | Wanted to end or limit immigration. Wanted immigrants to be able to read and write English. |
| Push factors | reasons why immigrants were motivated to leave their homelands |
| Pull factors | reasons why immigrants were motivated to come to the USA |
| accultureation | holding onto older customs while adapting to a new culture |
| Urbanization | movement of people from farms to cities |
| compulsory education | laws that required kids to go to school |
| Yellow Journalism | using sensational stories and headlines to sell newspapers |
| Typhoid and Cholera | diseases that killed many infants in tenements, poor sanitation caused it |
| skyscrapers | tall buildings in cities, with many floors, built with a steel frame |
| Land of Opportunity | many immigrants saw the United States in this way |
| assimilation | process in which immigrants adopt American customs |
| types of entertainment in the cities during the late 1800s | baseball, college football, basketball, Vaudeville shows, Kinetoscope parlors and phonograph parlors |
| farmers | homeland occupation of most new immigrants |
| southern and eastern Europe | new immigrants |
| northern and western Europe | old immigrants |
