| A | B |
|---|
| roundtrippers | immigrants who planned to get wealthy and return to their home country |
| tenements | crowed appartments with more than one family sharing rooms |
| settlement houses | places where poor people and immigrants can go to get food and better education and jobs |
| self help groups | immigrant formed groups to help themselves succeed in America |
| Thomas Edison | invented the light bulb, phonograph, and moving picture also know as movies |
| The telephone | invented by Alexander Gram Bell |
| streetcars | got rid of horse and bugie method in the city which made street cleaner and less crowed |
| skyscrapers | allowed cities to fit more people and businesses by growing upward |
| ethnic neighborhoods | an area where immigrants settled together to preserve their culture |
| assimilation | to be obsorbed into the main cultural group |
| steerage | lowest part of a ship with poor conditions and where most immigrants traveled |
| nativists | American born citizens who were against new immigranta |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882; banned Chinese workers from coming to America |
| Gentlemen's Agreements | 1908; limmited Japenese immigration |
