| A | B |
|---|
| Immigrate | To move to a new place |
| Emigrate | To leave one's own country |
| Push factors | Reasons people left their home countries |
| Pull factors | Things that attracted people to the US |
| Steerage | Cramped, lower quarters of a ship--where most immigrants travelled on their way to the US |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Limited Chinese immigration--didn't allow any Chinese laborers to move to the US for almost 60 years |
| Tenements | Cramped, unsanitary apartments where many city workers lived. |
| Slums | Downtrodden neighborhoods filled with crime, poverty, and disease |
| Sweat Shops | Cramped, unsafe workshops where people made clothing |
| Assimilate | To become part of the American culture |
| Nativists | Group of people who were against immigration--they feared immigrants would change the "American" culture |
| Jacob Riis | Photographer who documented urban slums and shared info with wealthy--wanted to change life for poor |
| Gilded | Coated in gold |
| The "gilded" age | An era in US History when things appeared wonderful on the outside, but that was not as nice as it seemed. |
| settlement houses | provided education, medical care, child care, and help to poor city dwellers |
| Elisha Otis | Invented the elevator |
| Skyscrapers | Allowed cities to grow "up" instead of "out"--REQUIRED STEEL! |
| John Dewey | Wanted to change schools--move the focus to problem solving rather than memorization |
| Gentleman's Agreement | Limited Japanese immigration in exchange for integrating schools in San Francisco |
| How long did it take immigrants to cross the Atlantic Ocean? | About a week |
| ghettos | areas of a city where people with similar ethnic backgrounds lived |
| Morrill Act | Gave free land to states for colleges (MSU was one!) |
| Mark Twain | Author known for poking fun at American culture-wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn |
| Ellis Island | Main Immigration station on East Coast (NYC)- European immigrants entered here |
| Angel Island | Main immigration station on West Coast (San Francisco) -Asian Immigrants entered here |
| indentured servants | agreed to work for weathly people in exchange for a ticket to America--illegal! |
| Tuskegee Institute | College that educated African Americans in teaching and trades |
| Booker T. Washington | Believed blacks could "earn" equality by working--founded Tuskegee Institute |
| W.E.B DuBois | Believed blacks should automatically have equality--that blacks had a right to classical education |
| suburbs | areas outside of cities where middle class people often lived |
| steerage | place in the ship where poor immigrants travelled to US |
| Mary Cassatt | Artist known for painting women and children |
| John Dewey | Founded progressive education--believed focus should be on child rather than memorization |
| Ragtime | Popular music at the turn of the century |
| Castle Garden | First immigration station in New York--shut down because of corruption, crime |
