Mr. Scott's US History Immigration Vocabulary Quiz

Southern and Eastern European immigrants who arrived in the US in a great wave between 1880 and 1920

• "New" Immigrants

• Rural to Urban Migrant

• Mass Culture

• Guided Age

Third-Class accommodations on a steam ship, which were usually overcrowded and dirty

• Mass Transit

• Steerage

• Vaudeville

• Melting Pot

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

• Urbanization

• Melting Pot

• Americanization

• Colonization

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

• Nationalization

• Melting Pot

• Nativism

• Urbanization

Belief that native born white Americans are superior to newcomers

• Steerage

• Nativism

• Mass Culture

• Urbanization

1882 Law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Rural Migrant Act

• Asian American Compact

• You Cant Come Here Law

Expansion of cities and / or an increase in the number of people living in them

• Urbanization

• Mass Culture

• Americanization

• Tenement

A person who moves from an agricultural area to a city

• Rural to Urban Migrant

• Americanization

• Conspicuous Consumerism

• Mass Culture

Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people

• Mass Transit

• Trans Continental Railway

• Busing System

• Subway transit

Multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible

• Mass Culture

• Tenement

• Ghetto Development

• Low income housing