social studies chapter 20
social studies chapter 20 grade 8
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- brooklyn bridge
- famous bridge that is still in use today
- ragtime
- type of music with strong rhythms and lively melody
- san francisco
- angel island was the immigrant processing center off the coast of what city
- steerage
- many immigrants spent up to 60 days in cramped quarters of a ships lower decks called
- louis sullivan
- architect who gave style to the skyscraper
- jane addams
- she founded hull house in chicago
- urban apartment slum
- tenement
- regionalism
- edith wharton used this technique to describe the life of upper class easterners
- chinese exclusion act
- name of the first law passed to limit immigration
- chicago
- the worlds first skyscraper was built in what city
- joesph pullitzer
- best known yellow journalist
- clothing factory where workers put in long hours at low wages
- sweatshop
- samuel clemens
- mark twains real name is
- fredereick law olmsted
- leader of the city beautiful movement and designed central park
- morill act
- act that gave federal land to states for education (land grant colleges)
- booker t washington
- founder of the tuskeegee institution
- new york harbor
- the statue of liberty is located in what harbor
- winslow homer
- american artist who painted stormy seas
- nickelodians
- name for short films that were the beginning of todays film industry
- grace abbot
- she spoke out in support of immigration