Chapter 7

Steerage

Worst accommodation on the steam ship

Vaudeville

entertainment shows that were a medely of musical drama, songs and off color comedy

Nativism

A belief that native born white Americans were superior to newcomers

William Randolph Hearst

A newspaper writer who informed people and stired up controversy

Elisha Otis

Developed a safety elevator that wouldn't fall if lifting rope broke

Americanization

Helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.

Mass Culture

Household, gadgets, toys and food preferences were the same from house to house

Joseph Pulitzer

Hungarian immigrant who fought in the civil war

Angel Island

Immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay for Chinese Immigrants

Ellis Island

Island in New York Harbor that served as immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving in the U.S. for European Immigrants; they had inspections here.

Frederick Law Olmsted

Landscape engineer to design Fairmount Park

Gilded Age

Last decades of the 19th century; the new lifestyle that middle class Americans adopted

Tenements

Most urban workers lived in the low cost multifamily having designed to squeeze in many family members

Horatio Alger

Novelist who focused on moral issues

Conspicuous Consumerism

People wanted and bought the many new products on the market

Mas Transit

Public system that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensive

Chinese Exclusion Act

The act that prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers which limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the U.S.

Suburbs

Residential areas surrounding a city

New Immigrants

Southern and European immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in a great wave.

Skyscrapers

Ten Story and taller buildings that had steel frames and used artistic designs to magnify their imposing height

Rural to Urban Migrants

The move from farm to factory

Urbanization

The number of cities and people living in the U.S that has increased dramatically

Melting Pot

White people of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture