| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Child Labor | young children working all day long |
| Citizen | a person who lives in a country and has the right to vote |
| Diversity | many different kinds |
| Ellis Island | an island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration center |
| Ethnic Group | a group of people who share the same language, custom, and homeland |
| Immigration | coming coming to a new country to live |
| Indurdty | a type of manufacturing or business |
| Melting Pot | a place where different ethnic groups join together to make one society |
| Persecuted | to be traded badly because of race religion |
| rulal | the countryside including farms and small towns |
| Statue of Liberty | a symbol of freedom that stands on an island in New York Harbor |
| Sweatshop | crowed workshops where workers were paid low wages |
| Tenements | crowed, dirty apartment buildings |
| Urban | cities |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
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