| A | B |
|---|
| conspicuous consumption | spending large amounts of money to show people one is rich and to increase social prestige |
| New Immigrants | immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe who were largely poor, illiterate, and unskilled and who came to the U.S. after 1880 and settled in the cities of the North and East |
| nativists | people who feared and distrusted anything foreign and who opposed the New Immigrants |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | law passed by Congress that prohibited further immigration from China and that prohibited Chinese living in the U.S. from becoming citizens |
| Immigration Restriction League | organization that tried to reduce the number of immigrants by getting literacy tests and other limits placed upon immigrants |
| settlement houses | institutions formed by humanitarians that helped immigrants adjust to life in America by providing services such as temporary shelter, day care, classes in English, etc. |
| Social Gospel | movement led by Protestant ministers that supported solving social problems through the application of christian principles such as charity toward the poor |
| Social Darwinism | belief that in society the principle of "survival of the fittest" applied and led to the best people rising to the top |
| philanthropy | effort to improve society by providing money to finance libraries, universities, museums, etc. |
