Chapter 5-1, 5-2 (8th grade)

What does Gilded Age mean?

• golden years

• something cheap/ugly covered by a thin layer of gold

• there are more rich people than poor people

• a time of war or unrest

Ellis Island:

• An island used for vacation during the 1900's

• Mid-Atlantic processing center

• West Coast processing center

• East Coast processing center

Tenement:

• a type of labor union

• run down apartment building immigrants lived in

• mansion

• schools for the poor

You would find a tenement in a:

• slum

• suburb

• farm

• steel-mill

Settlement houses helped:

• the jobless find jobs

• people go back to Europe

• the poor find shelter

• the rich get richer

Emigrate means:

• exit a country

• learn a new language

• join a labor union

• donate to the poor

Immigrants:

• come INTO a country

• usually lived in tenements

• were paid less

• all of the above

A nativist believes:

• only Russian immigrants were good

• immigrants were bad

• Native Americans didn't belong

• Being American meant anyone who was a citizen

What was one problem immigrants faced at Ellis Island?

• short lines

• hooks used to check their eyes

• food and clean change of clothes

• easy check in

New immigrants came mainly from (and did not assimilate well)

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Northern and Western Europe