The Gilded Age

Town in Utah where the eastern and western sections of the transcontinental railroad linked.

• Promontory Point

• Ellis Island

• Tenements

• Urbanization

Describes the somewhat untrue idea that the growing diversity of America can be blended together to become "one."

• Urbanization

• Melting Pot

• The Gilded Age

• Nativism

Anti-immigrant sentiments based on racism and prejudice.

• Melting pot

• Immigration policy

• Nativism

• Urbanization

Caused by several factors such as immigration, population growth, industrialization, improved transportation and more.

• Promontory point

• Melting Pot

• Tenements

• Urbanization

Growth of cities

• Urbanization

• Tenements

• Melting pot

• Ellis Island

Dirty, overcrowded apartment buildings where poor people, mostly immigrants and people of color, lived.

• Melting Pot

• Tenements

• Promontory Point

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Act passed by congress as a result of prejudice against a group of people.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Promontory Point

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Nativism

The transcontinental railroad was bult by two private companies, the Central Pacific Railroad and the