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| Pull Factors | Conditions that attract people to a new area or home. |
| Push Factors | Conditions that drive people to leave their homes. |
| The New Colossus | Poem written by Emma Lazarus and is carved at the base of the Statue of Liberty. |
| Ellis Island | Immigrants entering New York first came here to be inspected. |
| Angel Island | Immigrants coming from Asia were processed here before entering the United States. |
| Old Immigrants | Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe. |
| New Immigrants | Immigrants from Eastern and Southen Europe, Asia, and Latin America. |
| Ethnic Group | A group of people who share a common culture. |
| Assimilation | The process of becoming part of another culture. |
| Nativist | A person who wanted to limit immigration and preserve the United States for native-born white Americans. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Barred the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. |
| Pogroms | Organized massacre of Jews in Russia during the late 1800's. |
| Famine, War, Disease, and poverty. | Examples of Push Factors. |
| Freedom, Jobs, land, and chance for a better life | Examples of Pull Factors. |
| Reasons cities grew in the late 1800's | Immigration, Western Land divided up, African American Migration, and jobs. |
| Tenements | Apartment in a six or seven-story building in a city. |
| Salvation Army | An organization that offered food and shelter to the poor. |
| Settlement House | A community center that offers services to the poor. |
| Hull House | Best known settlement house set up Jane Addams. |
| Alice Hamilton | A Hull House doctor, who campaigned for better health laws. |
| Florence Kelley | Worked to ban child labor. |
| Skyscrapers | Tall buildings that seemed to touch the sky. |
| Frank Sprague | Designed the first electric streetcar in 1887. |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | Planned Central Park in New York City. |
| James Naismith | Taught at the YMCA, and invented basketball. |
| Baseball, Football, and Basketball | Sports that became popular in cities during the late 1800's. |
| Vaudeville | A variety show that included comedians, song and dance routines, and acrobats. |
| Ragtime | A new kind of music with a lively rhythmic sound. |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Created the first modern, mass circulation newspaper. |
| William Randolph Hearst | Owned the newspaper Journal, which printed scandals, crime stories, and gossip. |
| Yellow Journalism | A sensational style of reporting. |
| Realists | Wanted to show life as it really was. |
| Dime Novels | Popular paperback books that offered thrilling adventure stories. |
| Stephen Crane | Wrote the short story, "The Red Badge of Courage." |
| Mark Twain | This was Samuel Clemens pen name. He wrote Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. |
| Winslow Homer | Drew realistic battle scenes for magazines. |
