Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
9 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Slum
|
Collection of run-down apartment buildings usually reserved for new immigrants in the late 1800's
|
|
|
Tenement
|
A decrepit apartment building with poor living conditions
|
|
|
Urbanization
|
The rapid growth of cities
|
|
|
Social Gospel
|
The idea that churches should meet the immediate needs of the poor
|
|
|
Political Machine
|
A political organization that ran its corrupt operations as effeciently as a machine
|
|
|
Melting Pot
|
The idea that immigrant cultures blended together into a unique American culture
|
|
|
Ellis Island
|
Also known as the Isle of Tears. Immigrants were processed into the US at this location
|
|
|
New Immigrants
|
People who came to the US in the late 1800's from locations in Eastern and Southern Europe
|
|
|
Old Immigrants
|
People who arrived in the US from Western and Northern Europe in the earlier 1800's
|
