Immigration/Urban Life (vocab&review)

Immigrants from Northern Europe in the mid-1800s

• old immigrants

• new immigrants

An area below a ship's deck where the steering mechanisms were located. Also where many immigrants traveled.

• captain's quarters

• steerage

• tenement

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?

• banned only Chinese women from immigrating to the United States

• banned Chinese immigrants for 10 years

• allowed Chinese immigrants to come to the United States for free

Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, Asia, and Mexico

• new immigrants

• old immigrants

poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings

• department stores

• suburb

• sweatshops

• tenements

workplace with long hours, and hot, unhealthy working conditions

• benevolent societies

• sweatshops

• mass culture

Who was famous for exposing horrific working conditions in New York City through pictures?

• Jacob Riis

• Andrew Carnegie

• Jane Addams

• Frederick Law Olmstead

large retail stores that sell many different types of goods

• supermarket

• department stores

• thrift store

transportation designed to move a large number of people

• city transportation

• Model-T

• mass transportation

neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered recreation, education, and social activities

• the YMCA

• settlement house

• churches

• suburbs