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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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push factors–why they LEFT their homelands

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economic hardship; overcrowding; poverty; persecution

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pull factors–why they CAME to America

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opportunities; place of jobs, land, hope

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where immigrants from

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“new” immigrants from southern & eastern Europe

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experience of immigrants in cities

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unskilled jobs, long hours, low wages, tenements & slums, trying to assimilate

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American art & music

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American style developed after Civil War (stopped trying to copy Europeans)

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yellow journalism

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sensational stories; click-bait headlines

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assimilate

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become part of the larger culture; fit in

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emigrate

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leave (exit) one’s homeland to live somewhere else

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tenement

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run-down, crowded apartment building in slums

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ragtime

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related to jazz; syncopation in melody

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spectator sports

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way to spend free time; baseball, football, basketball

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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“City Beautiful” movement; designed NY Central Park & parks in Boston

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Hull House

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founded by Jane Addams in Chicago; place immigrants could go for assistance

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Brooklyn Bridge

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opened in New York in 1883

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Edith Wharton

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described lives of upper-class Easterners

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trolley car

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mass transit system in Richmond, Virginia, in 1888

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ESSAY 1: pattern of immigrants change

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OLD immigrants-northern & western Europe
NEW immigrants-eastern & southern Europe, Mexico, China & Japan

NEW immigrants came b/c of persecution & overcrowding back home, job opportunities in America

NEW immigrants weren’t welcomed quite as well as OLD immigrants had been b/c of religious, language, customs differences

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ESSAY 2: leisure/free time

Discuss at least 3 ways–give specifics!!!!!

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  • spectator sports
  • reading
  • vaudeville shows
  • nickelodeons
  • music

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