Immigrants faced challenges like persecution, economic problems, lack of jobs and war in their countries.
The causes of city growth were urbanization and technology. The effects of urbanizations and technology allowed cities to get bigger, make new jobs and improved city life.
Mass culture allowed everyone to have the same things no matter if they were rich or poor. The impact it has today involves aspects of mass culture and entertainment.
Steerage was a third class seating on a ship.
Nativism was a belief that native born white americans were superior to the newcomers.
Melting pot is a society of people with different nationalities life together.
Chinese Exclusion was a act that did not allow the immigration of chinese laborers.
Ellis Island immigration station in New York.
Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco Bay.
Urbanization a expansion of cities.
Mass Transit public transportation systems that carry large amounts of people.
Suburb the are surrounding a city.
Gilded Age the last decades of the nineteenth century.
Consumerism is when there is a lot of buying/purchasing.
Frederick Law Olmsted was a landscape engineer hired to make parks and recreational areas in New York and other cities.
William Randolph Hearst newspaper writer during the 1900's.
Horatio Alger wrote books about succeeding from hard work.
Mark Twain wrote The Gilded Age.
Connection to today
This chapter affected our lives today by making America a big melting pot.
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