Module 21 Immigrants and Urban Life

a term often used for an immigrant who arrived in the United States before the 1880s

• old immigrants
• Florence Kelley
• assimilation
• Hull House

a term often used for an immigrant who arrived in the United States beginning in the 1880s

• new immigrants
• old immigrants
• Florence Kelley
• assimilation

the area on a ship in the lower levels where the steering mechanisms were located and where cramped quarters were provided for people who could only afford cheap passage

• steerage
• new immigrants
• old immigrants
• Florence Kelley

an aid organization formed by immigrant communities

• benevolent societies
• steerage
• new immigrants
• old immigrants

poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived

• tenements
• benevolent societies
• steerage
• new immigrants

hot, stuffy workshops in which workers prepare materials for low wages

• sweatshops
• tenements
• benevolent societies
• steerage

a law passed by Congress that banned Chinese from immigrating ot the United States for 10 years

• Chinese Exclusion Act
• sweatshops
• tenements
• benevolent societies

public transportation

• mass transit
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• sweatshops
• tenements

a neighborhood outside of a downtown area

• suburbs
• mass transit
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• sweatshops

leisure and cultural activities shared by many people

• mass culture
• suburbs
• mass transit
• Chinese Exclusion Act