chapter 21 key concepts and terms Flashcards
assimilation
the prosses of taking in and fully understanding information and ideas
Industrialization
the development of industries in a country
urbanization
the movement of populations from farms to cities, accelerated
immigration
the action of coming to live permanently in a foren country
push factors
the reason why the immigrant moved to a different place
pull factors
why the immigrant went to that specif place
progressive education
Where John Dewy believed that children learned best when they were “learn[ing] by doing”
yellow journalism
the term of the sensational reporting style
realism
wrote gritty stories describing the harsh side of city, industrial, and factory life created by the Industrial Revolution
old immigrants
Primarily from northern and western Europe
Mostly Protestant from Britain, Ireland, Scotland
Also, Germans, Scandinavians, who were Catholic, as well as Irish Catholics
new immigrants
Primarily Southern and Eastern European (Italian, Polish, Greek, Russian, Hungarian)
More likely to be Catholic or Jewish
Also Asians, especially Chinese and Japanese
Nativists
did not want immigrants to come to the us
tenement
a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments
