| A | B |
|---|
| The most basic and cheapest accomodations on a steamship | Steerage |
| A tiny island in New York Harbor and a processing center for immigrants in the last 1800s | Ellis Island |
| Danish-born journalism who wrote about the urban poor | Jacob Riis |
| A processing center in California for Asian immigrant in the late 1800s | Angel Island |
| An extreme dislike for foreigners by native-born people and a desire to limit immigration | Nativism |
| A law that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Tall steel frame buildings | Skyscraper |
| Architect who designed skyscrapers | Louis Sullivan |
| Dark and crowded multi-family apartments in cities | Tenement |
| AN informal political group designed to gain and keep power | Political Machines |
| Individual who ran a political machine | Party Boss |
| A powerful party boss in New York City | George Plunkitt |
| Getting money through dishonest or questionable means | Graft |
| Corrupt political boss of Tammany Hall, a New York Democratic politcal machine | William M. Tweed |
| The time period between 1870 and 1900 | Gilded Age |
| The idea that society progresses and becomes better only the fittest people survive | Social Darwinism |
| The philosophy that wealthy people who profited from society owed it something in return | Gospel of Wealth |
| The using of one's wealth to further social progress | Philanthropy |
| A movement in art and literature that attempted to portray people realisitically | Realism |
| A theater show that included animal acts, acrobats, gymnasts, and dancers | Vaudeville |
| Music whith syncopated rhythms that grew out of riverside honkey-tonks, saloon pianists, and banjo players | Ragtime |
| An African American ragtime composer | Scott Joplin |
| A journalist who criticized the effects of industrialization | Henry George |
| A writer who challenged the ideas of Social Darwinism | Lester Frank Ward |
| A writer whose ideas were a form of socialism | Edward Bellamy |
| A new style of writing that suggested that some people failed in life because of circumstances beyond their control | Naturalism |
| Reformer who established settlement houses | Jane Addams |
| Residences in poor neighborhoods in which middle-class people lived and helped poor people | Settlement House |
| The process pf becoming knowledgeable about American culture | Americanization |
