(MMS) Unit 3 Vocabulary (Industrialization & Immigration)

apartments that are tiny, crowded, and unsafe

• tenements

• settlement houses

• industrialization

• rural

Answer explanation

Tenement and apartment have the same suffix, and that helps many students remember that tenements were small, crowded apartments.

Tenements often did not have indoor toilets or baths.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

a place that helps immigrants get used to their new country

• tenements

• settlement houses

• industrialization

• rural

Answer explanation

Settlement houses were like community centers (like Dulles South) that helped immigrants get used to living in a new country by teaching English, providing a place for children to play, or helping immigrants find jobs or a place to live.

The first settlement house in the USA was called Hull House, and it was started by Jane Addams.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

changing from farming to manufacturing

• tenements

• settlement houses

• industrialization

• rural

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

the countryside; a farm area with few people

• tenements

• rural

• industrialization

• urbanization

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

many people moving to cities

• tenements

• rural

• mechanization

• urbanization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

when people in power break the law

• corruption
• political machines
• mechanization
• urbanization

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

groups trying to control the government, usually located in neighborhoods of cities

• corruption
• political machines
• mechanization
• urbanization

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

replacing human workers with machines

• corruption

• political machines

• mechanization

• urbanization

immigrants

• people who move to a different country and plan to stay there

• people who move to a different country for a few years

• people who move to a new city

• people who visit a different country on vacation

Answer explanation

The USA is a nation of immigrants.

Unless you are 100% American Indian, someone in your family (maybe you!) was an immigrant.

bad things people want to get away from in their home countries

• push factors

• pull factors

• factoring polynomials

• the factors of 100

Answer explanation

PUSH factors were bad things pushing immigrants out of their countries:

forced military service

religious persecution

famine

poverty

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3