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Define Urbanization |
Expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them |
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What took place at Ellis Island |
European immigrants were processed in only a few hours |
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Why is the United States called a "melting pot" |
Because there were all sorts of different people of all kinds |
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What kind of books did Horatio Alger write |
Rages to riches about the American Dream |
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Who improved upon the elevator and made it practical |
Elisha Graves Otis |
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What is a skyscraper |
A very tall building |
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When was the Gilded Age in American history |
1870s to 1900 |
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what business was William Randolph Hearst involved in |
he published the morning journal |
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what are 2 benefits of mass transit |
cleaner and more efficient than coal or horses. allowed people to commute to work |
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define mass culture |
similar cultural patterns in a society as a result of the spread of transportation, communication, and advertising |
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who wrote the age of innocence |
Edith Wharton |
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which newspaper did Joseph Pulitzer publish |
the world |
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What was the significance of the Chinese exclusion act |
to stop the sick and undesirable to move to the United States |
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Name 2 pull factors for immigrants to move to the united states |
more jobs, freedom of religion |
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how did most immigrants get to the US |
by boat |
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why did most new immigrants settle inside of cities |
there were more ghetto's, and jobs |
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why did native-born Americans have prejudice againts many Eastern Europeans |
because they had different religions, and different cultures |
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Why did many Americans move from farms to cities |
to look for better jobs |
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how did the elevator affect the construction of skyscrapers |
they allowed people to get to the top floor easier |
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what was life like inside of a tenement |
cramped and poor |
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which department store owner used large newspaper advertisements to attract shoppers |
Wanamaker's |
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how was education affected by the need for trained workers |
science, woodworking, drafting, civics, and business classes were formed |
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what does the word "gilded" mean |
golden age |
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why did most immigrants settle in ghettos |
because there were people like them and it was kind of like their culture |
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define assimilation |
to become more american |
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define nativism |
belief that native born white Americans are superior to immigrants |
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what was the purpose of the book how the other half lives? who wrote it? |
to show how the lower class lived, Jacob Riis |
