Topic 2: Part 2 Vocab Quiz

What was steerage during the years of peak immigration?

• The primary choice of wealthy immigrants as they traveled to America

• The cheapest and worst accommodations on the steam ship

• The first choice for the majority of Chinese immigrants on the way to Ellis Island

• The only way immigrants could travel across the Atlantic Ocean

This is the tendency to prefer native-born white Americans over "new" immigrants.

• Steerage

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Nativism

• Socialism

A period in American history in which the numbers of cities and people living in them increased dramatically.

• Industrialization

• Gilded Age

• Melting pot

• Urbanization

The Harbor in New York where most European immigrants were processed.

• Angel Island

• South Padre Island

• Ellis Island

• Coney Island

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of constructing skyscrapers?

• Steel was strong enough to make buildings 10 stories and taller

• The trolley cars and horse carts needed shade during the day

• They created space when there was no room left on the ground

• The increased numbers of people in close proximity would stimulate economic development

Where middle and upper class citizens would move to in order to get away from the noise and dirt of the new industrial cities.

• Suburbs

• Downtown

• Rural farms

• Out of State

Most urban workers lived in this low-cost multifamily housing unit.

• Hotel

• Suburb

• Steerage

• Tenement

Name for the new lifestyle of Americans in the last decades of the 19th century.

Where prosperity looked abundant, but corruption and poverty were widespread.

• Modern Age

• Gilded Age

• Pre-historic Age

• Middle Ages

This was a concept described when rich and poor could wear the same clothing styles,

own matching household gadgets, and even food preferences were often similar.

• mass culture

• conspicuous consumerism

• Gilded Age

• Internationalism

Glitzy shows of the time that contained musical drama, songs and off-color comedy.

• Amphitheater

• Amusement Parks

• YMCA

• Vaudeville