| A | B |
|---|
| old immigrants | immigrants who came to the U.S. before the 1880s; most were from northern Europe |
| new immigrants | immigrants who came to the U.S. during and after the 1880s most were from southern and eastern Europe |
| steerage | Area in a ship's lower levels; many immigrants who came to the U.S. traveled in this less-expensive space. |
| tenements | Poorly built overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived |
| benevolent societies | Organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment and death |
| Immigration Restriction League | Organization formed in 1894 by nativists who wanted to reduce immigration |
| mass transit | Public transportation |
| suburbs | Residential neighborhoods surrounding a city |
| department stores | Large retail shops that first appeared in cities in the late 1800s. |
| settlement houses | Neighborhood centers that arose in the late 1800s to offer education, recreation, and social activities to immigrants and poor people |
| Hull House | Settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star in Chicago in 1889. |
| mass culture | Leisure and cultural activities shared by large numbers of people. |
| Linotype | An automatic typesetting machine that reduced the time and cost of printing |
| realism | A writing style that became popular during the late 1800s that concentrates on presenting accurate images of American society |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | (1882) Law prohibiting Chinese people from immigration to the US for a period of 10 years: was extended into the early 1900s. |
| Clara Barton | 1882 convinced US to join the international Red Cross |
| Statue of Liberty | Dedicated in New York Harbor 1886 |
| Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Starr | Open Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago |
| Ellis Island | 1892 opened by the federal government as a station for receiving immigrants to the US |
| Janie Porter Barrett | founded an African American settlement house in Hampton, VA |
| Horatio Alger Jr. | wrote popular "rags-to-riches" series of novels |
| Louisia May Alcott | wrote about the lives of young women |
| Theodore Dreiser | 1900 published Sister Carrie a novel of a young country woman and her new life in the city of Chicago, Illinois |
| Samuel Clemens | wrote as Mark Twain , wrote stories set in the Mississippi River area and the Far West |
| Winslow Homer | painted watercolors of New England land and seacapes |
| James McNeill Whistler | best know for his painting of his mother |
| Mary Cassatt | first American impressionist painter |
| George Eastmen | whose Kodak camera sold for $10 and could take 100 pictures |
