Chapter 20 Urban Society and Immigration

The people left their homelands, to leave one's place of origin to live someone else; move abroad; live elsewhere.

• emigrate

• nativists

• assimilate

• ethnic group

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

• suburb

• assimilate

• ethnic group

• regionalism

True or False;

To absorb a group into a culture of a larger population is called regionalism.

• True

• False

Pro American born, anti - immigrant groups in American politics in 1830's and again in the late 1800's. This group was afraid to lose jobs to immigrants.

• tenements

• ethnic group

• assimilate

• Nativists

This act responded to anti-immigrant feelings that prohibited immigration for certain ethnic workers for 10 years in 1882 and in 1902.

• Gilded Age

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Regionalism

• Land Grant College

An apartment building in the slums; in the poor run-down urban neighborhoods.

• Suburb

• Hull House

• Nativists

• Tenement

True or False:

A slum is a run-down neighborhood.

• True

• False

Match the following

• A writing style that focuses on a particular region of the country.

• Settlement House

• A dark, crowded, shop where workers made clothing.

• Sweatshop

• Cramped quarters on the lower decks of ships; cheapest place to ride on a ship.

• Hull House

• A building located in poor neighborhoods; provided, medical, child care, libraries and English class

• Regionalism

• A famous settlement house in Chicago started by Jane Adams.

• Steerage

A residential area that sprang up outside the cities.

• Suburb

• Land Grant College

• Yellow Journalism

• Vaudeville

Was a pioneer Settlement social worker, started Hull House in CHicago in 1889.

• Mark Twain

• George Washington Carver

• Jane Adams