| A | B |
|---|
| Old Immigrants- | 1840's |
| Old immigrants came from | Great Britain, Ireland, France |
| New Immigrants | 1885-1915 |
| New Immigrants came from | Italy, Poland, Hungary |
| steerage | lower part of ship where immigrants got cheap tickets |
| tenements | poorly built overcrowded apartments for immigrants |
| benevolent societies | organizations that helped immigrants when they were sick, out of work, etc |
| Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 | law keeping Chinese from immigrating to US for 10 years |
| immigrants | people who came to the US for a better life |
| reasons for immigrating to US | jobs, better life, avoid religious persecution |
| mass transit | public transportation |
| suburbs | neighborhood surrounding cities (B'Ville is a suburb of Syracuse) |
| department stores | giant retail stores |
| settlement houses | neighborhood centers for poor; |
| what settlement houses provided | education, social activities |
| mass culture | leisure and cultural activities shared by many |
| examples of mass culture | amusement parks, state fairs |
| realism | books that accurately showed American culture as it really was |
| nativists | US citizens who were agains immigration |
| Hull House | settlement house foundedby Jane Adams |
| linotype | automatic typesetting used to print newspapers |
