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| emigrate | to leave one place of residence or country to live somewhere else |
| ethnic group | people who share a common language and tradtions |
| steerage | cramped quarters on a ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares |
| sweatshop | a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions |
| assimilate | to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population |
| tenement | a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety |
| slum | poor, crowded, and run-down urban neighborhoods |
| suburb | residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation |
| settlement house | institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services |
| Hull House | settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889 |
| skyscraper | a very tall building |
| land-grant college | agricultural college established as a result of the 1862 Morrill Act |
| realism | an approach to literature and the arts that shows things as they really are |
| regionalism | art or literature on a paricular region of the country |
| yellow journalism | a type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting |
| spectator sport | sporting event that draws a crowd |
| vaudeville | stage entertainment made up of various acts, such as dancing, singing, comedy, and magic shows |
| jazz | American music developed from ragtime and blues with African rhythms |
| ragtime | a type of music with a strong rhythm and a lively melody with accented tones (early 1900s) |
| Emma Lazarus | an American poet |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | prohibited Chinese workers from entering the U.S. |
| Immigration Act of 1917 | included a literacy requirement |
| Gilded Age | a time period 1870 to 1898 |
| Jane Addams | founded Hull House, a settlement house, where poor received assistance |
| Louis Sullivan | one of the first to design skyscrapers |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | designed New York's Central Park as well as several parks in Boston |
| George Washington Carver | developed hundreds of products, including plastics and paper, from the peanut |
| Mark Twain | a realist and a regionalist in his writings |
| Joseph Pulitzer | created a new kind of newspaper |
| William Randolph Hearst | exaggerated dramatic or gruesome aspects of newspaper stories |
| attitude | way of thinking and acting |
| affect | to influence; hanve an impact on |
| major | greater in size, or importance |
| minor | lesser in size, or importance |
| philosophy | a set of ideas and beliefs |
| isolate | cut off or separate |
