Unit 5: Gilded Age: Immigration & Industrialization

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Gilded Age

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1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor

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New Immigrants

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Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe.

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Old Immigrants

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Immigrant who arrived in the United States before the 1880s; most were from northern and western Europe.

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Push factors

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A factor that causes people to leave their homeland and migrate to another region.

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Pull factors

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A factor that draws or attracts people to another location.

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Ellis Island

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An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy.

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Assimilation

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Adopting the traits of another culture. Often happens over time when one immigrates into a new country.

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Urbanization

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An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

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Ghetto

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A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.

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Tenement

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A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.