8 Ch.5: An Urban Society

by the early 1900s, most immigrants arrived from northern and western Europe.

• true

• false

economic hardship was common "push" factor for immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s

• true

• false

immigrants played an important role in the growth of cities

• true

• false

most working-class residents of U.S. cities received good wages and benefits

• true

• false

after the Civil War, American artists and musicians largely copied European styles

• true

• false

a type of residence that is often run-down and crowded

• emigrate

• assimilate

• tenement

• ragtime

a type of music characterized by syncopation in the melody

• jazz

• ragtime

• hip hop

• flapper

to leave one's homeland to live somewhere else

• immigration

• emigration

• migration

• exodus

to become part of a larger culture

• assimilate

• accumulate

• acclimate

• assume

based on sensational stories

• yellow journalism

• black and white newspaper

• Sunday Comics

• Yellow Kid