Chapter+14+-+Immigration+and+Urbanization

=Immigration and Urbanization= Add your new vocabulary for the section. Remember to have a valid definition and tag it with the first two letters of your first name and first letter of your last name e.g. JeK. It might be helpful to include the page you first encountered the word. Feel free to add words from previous sections that are appropriate to this content (connections!). It may be helpful to compose your entry in a word processing program and then cut and paste it to the wiki.

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 * americanization** (p.468)- Helping people learn the ways of American life. Ex. Before the Indian Removal act, Americans tried to Americanize the Cherokee. When they failed, it was bye bye for the Cherokee in our land.


 * assimilate ** (p. 467) take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully; absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture. The immigrants **assimilated** into American society- SaB. This also goes back to the concept of a melting pot, they melted into society. JaK . Or it became a "salad bowl" and helped shape society. SaK


 * Compulsory**(p.483) mandatory; required Ex.grade-school education became compulsory. ChF


 * Conspicuous Concumerism** People want and bought all of the new products on the market. ZaG


 * cynical**(p. 480) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others. In other words, negative or unbelieving. JaK


 * demise** (p. 503) a person's death. ReH


 * Despotism** (Document C of DBQ packet)- A single entity ruling with absolute power, an example being dictatorship's and monarchies. JaK


 * deteriorate** (pg. 474) become progressively worse. MaL Ex) to disintegrate, or break apart slowly. SaK


 * Elisha Otis (p. 475) -** He developed a safety elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke. This innovation was used in skyscrapers and buildings. TiM


 * Ellis Island** (p. 466) A processing center, opened in 1892, for immigrants entering the United States from ships that transported them across the Atlantic Ocean, often from Europe. It is located in New York Harbor and is currently no longer in use as a processing center. Here third class, or steerage passengers underwent medical and legal inspections before either being detained and deported, or released on a ferry to New York City. - GaM


 * Fraternal** (p.468) - of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly. of or being a society of men associated in brotherly union,as for mutual aid or benefit.(ReH)


 * innovation** (p.474) The process of, or a new invention, idea, or method. One reason the invention of the tenement building was an important **innovation** is because it allowed many people to live, fairly inexpensively, close to where they worked, so they could walk there and not have to use public transportation, which they couldn't afford. GaM


 * Migrants - (p.473) -** Also called a migrant worker, a person who moves from place to place to get work, especially a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally. - TiM


 * Mushoroomed** (p.484) To grow or spread rapidly. The number of immigrants **mushroomed** in the late 1800s. MeL


 * Naturalization** (pg. 469) : to confer (consult; compare opinions) upon the rights and privileges of a citizen. The Chinese Exclusion Act forbade the **naturalization** of Chinese residents.- JuK


 * Nickelodeons** (p.485) - Movie theaters charging ten cents to enter. ZaP


 * Parochial (**p.468) of or pertaining to a parish or parishes. Catholics established churches and **parochial** schools. BeW **ALSO:** Limited in range or understanding, provincial (JeK)


 * Pauper** (pg. 469) - A very poor person, a person without any means of support. SaK


 * Plight p. 476 -** A state, situation or condition of unfavorable sorts. It is a **plight** to be a man in debt. SAH


 * preliminary** (p.466) Happening previous to and leading up to something. The shipowners did **preliminary** inspections before the passengers boarded the steamships to go to America. - GaM


 * Quarantined** (pg. 470) a state, period, or place of isolation in which people that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed. MaL


 * Rowland H. Macy** (page 481) - He opened the first department store. (Macy's) SaK


 * satire, satirized** (p.480) the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. SaB


 * steerage** - (p.466) noun, the lower decks of a ship with no private cabins, dirty and crowded. Most immigrants travelled in steerage. TT


 * Tenements p. 476** **-** Low-cost mutlifamily housing designed to get as many families in as possible. The tenements were a health hazard because disease was so easily spread throughout the building. SaH


 * Upsurge** (p.484) a strong increase upward. There was an upsurge in the percentage of the population that is literate by 1900. MeL


 * Urbanization - (p.472)** - Expansion of cities and/or increase in the number of people living in them. TiM


 * world power-(p.469)-** (n) a nation or institution so powerful it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events. Ex. Immigrants in the late 19th century, were making the US a world power of industry.