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12 Cards in this Set
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Steerage
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Third class accomodations on a steamship, which were usually overcrowded and dirty
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Ellis Island
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Island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States
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Americanization
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Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens
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Nativism
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Belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
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Urbanization
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Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them
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Mass Transit
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Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people
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Suburb
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Residential areas surrounding a city
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Tenement
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multistory building divided into apartments to house as many familes as possible
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Mass culture
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similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising
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Joseph Pulitzer
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A Hungarian immigrant who fought in the civil war, wrote newspapers and believed they were made to inform and stir up controversy.
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Gilded Age
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Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-reconstruction era which was characterized by afacade of prosperity.
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