Immigration Vocab
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- Ethnic Group
- A group of people who show a common culture
- Urbanazation
- The movement of populations from farms to cities
- Horatio Alger
- Wrote more than 100 dime novels most were rag to riches stories
- Social Gospel
- The duty of rich christians to help societys poor
- Joseph Pultizer
- NY world added commic strips bold headlines pictures of crime and scandals increses circulation
- Chinese exclusion act
- 1 -chinese laborer could enter the U.S 2- No chinese living in the US could return once they left
- Yellow Journalism
- Sensational reporting style
- John Philip sousa
- Marching bands played music from him
- Tenament
- A building divided into small apartments with poor living conditions
- William Randolph Hearst
- NY Journalist scandal gossip crime yellow used to attract readers
- Assimilation
- The process of becoming part of another culture
- Settlement House
- A community center that offers services to the poor
- Ragtime
- New kind of music with livily rythatic style
- Nellie Bly
- Women report who went undercover as a mental patient to report on conditions in mental asylums
- Migration
- Move from one place to another
- American Protective Association
- Formed 1887 7 million members another example of immigration restiction league
- Nativist
- Po\eople who want to limit immigration and preserve the country for native born white protestants
- Mark Twain
- Samuel Clemens wrote using :local color" wrote about specific region with slang making it more realistic
- James Nal smith
- invented basketball started at YMCA
- Winslow Homer
- Drew scenes of battles also realsitic pictures New England Coast
- Dime Novels
- paperback books with adventure stories
- Vaudeville
- variety shows (comedians)
- Scott Joplin
- Popular ragtime musician african american