History Vocab. 4

Question 0

Sweatshop

Answer 0

A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions

Question 1

Emigrate

Answer 1

To leave one’s place of residence or country to live somewhere else

Question 2

Ethnic group

Answer 2

A minority that speaks a different language or follows different customs than the majority of people in a country; people who share a common language and traditions

Question 3

Assimilate

Answer 3

To absorb a group into the culture of a larger population

Question 4

Steerage

Answer 4

Cramped quarters on a ship’s lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares

Question 5

Tenement

Answer 5

A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety

Question 6

Settlement house

Answer 6

Institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English

Question 7

Slum

Answer 7

Poor, crowded, and run-down urban neighborhoods

Question 8

Suburbs

Answer 8

Residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation

Question 9

Skyscraper

Answer 9

A very tall building

Question 10

Spectator sport

Answer 10

Sporting event that draws a crowd

Question 11

Vaudeville

Answer 11

Stage entertainment made up of various acts, such as dancing, singing, comedy, and magic shows

Question 12

Regionalism

Answer 12

Art or literature focused on a particular region of the country

Question 13

Jazz

Answer 13

American music developed from ragtime and blues with African rhythms

Question 14

Yellow journalism

Answer 14

Writing which exaggerates sensational, dramatic and gruesome events to attract readers, named for stories that were popular during the late 1800s; a type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting