Topic 2.4-2.6 #1

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Southern and Eastern Europeans who arrived in the United States in a great wave between 1880 and 1920

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new immigrants

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third-class accomodations on a steamship

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steerage

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island in New York Harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States

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Ellis Island

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immigrant processing center that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910

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Angel Island

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belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens

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Americanization

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society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture

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melting pot

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inclination to favor native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants

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nativism

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1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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the penname for Samuel Langhorne Clemons, an American novelist who wrote famous works such as Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. His stories reflected the America experience as he saw it.

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Mark Twain

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term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era as a facade of prosperity.

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Gilded Age