| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Realists | Writers who wanted to show life as it really was during the immigration period. |
| Mother Cabrini | Founded more than 70 hospitals in North and South America. |
| Scott Joplin | Made the sounds of ragtime popular. |
| Jane Addams | Founded Hull House |
| Farmers | Left Europe in the late 1880s because there wasn't much land and the populations were growing. |
| New Immigrants | In the late 1900s, they came from Southern and Eastern Europe. |
| Old Immigrants | In the early to mid 1800s, came from Northern and Western Europe. |
| Rich/upper class people | Lived in homes on the outer edges of the city center. |
| Settlement Houses | At these houses, reformers (people who wanted change), helped the poor. An example of this would be the Hull House. |
| Ragtime | Type of music during this era. Scott Joplin made the sounds of ragtime popular. |
| Ellis Island | Many immigrants first landed here from Europe. |
| Statue of Liberty | Symbol of hope and freedom to immigrants. Contained poem at base of statue "give me your tired your poor..." This was written by Emma Lazarus, welcoming immigrants to America. |
| YMCA and YWCA | A group that set up activities mostly for young people to keep them off the streets. |
| Assimilation | The process through which immigrants become part of American culture. Ex. Buying similar clothing, eating similar food, etc. |
| Cities | This where immigrants settled. They settled here because there were job opportunities and they were recreational past times (going to baseball games, vaudeville, department stores, Central Park, and the Zoo) |
| Tenements | These were old buildings which were overcrowded with people. Immigrants called th is home. It was located in the city slums and conditions were poor. |
| Skyscrapers | Built in the cities because of the little space that there was to build. |
| Trolleys | These were built in order to improve transportation in the city. |
| Newspapers | The purchase of newspapers grew tremendously throughout the cities. Why do you think this was so? |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | This was passed by Congress in order to limit the number of Chinese immigrants that came into the U.S. This was done because the Chinese had faced terrible discrimination when they had arrived here. |
| Pull Factor | Conditions that attract people to a new area (new job opportunities, better life, freedom). |
| Push Factor | Conditions that drive people to leave their homes (poor conditions, no jobs, no freedom, etc.) |
| Nativists | Wanted to put limits on the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. |
| Jane Addams | A reformer who opened a settlement house called the Hull House, for the poor. |
| Salvation Army | Group to help the poor; offered food and clothing. |
| Problems with the cities | Disease, overcrowded, dangerous, crime, pollution, dirty |
| Angel Island | Place where many immigrants from Asia landed. |
| yellow journalism | sensational news reporting emphasizing crime, gossip, and scandal. |
| building codes | New rules for structures- fire escapes and decent plumbing. |
| Why were labor unions against immigrants? | They were taking jobs away from the citizens! |
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