Review Game Chapter 20
Chapter 20
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- sweatshops
- a clothing factory where workers put in long hours at low wages
- Samuel Clemens
- Mark Twain's real name
- steerage
- many immigrants spent up to 60 days in cramped quarters of a ships lower deck called
- New York
- statue of liberty is located in this harbor
- Nickolodeons
- name for short films that were the beginning of today's film industry(5 cent charge)
- Booker T. Washington
- founder of Tuskeegee Institution
- Brooklyn Bridge
- famous bridge that opened in 1883 that is still in use today
- San Francisco
- Angel Island was the immigrant processing center off the coast of this city
- Jane Addams
- she founded Hull House in Chicago
- ragtime
- type of music with strong rythms and lively melody
- regionalism
- Edith Wharton used this technique to describe the life of upper-class easterners
- William Randolph Hearsts
- best known for yellow journalism
- Winslow Homer
- american artist who painted stormy sea scenes
- Fredrick Law Olmsted
- leader of the "City Beautiful" movement and designed central park
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- the name of the first law passed to limit immigration
- Morrill Act
- act that gave federal land to states for education (land grant college)
- tenements
- Urban apartment slum
- Elisha Otis
- Architect who gave style to the skyscraper
- Grace Abbot
- She spoke out in suppor of immigration
- Chicago
- worlds first skyscraper was built in this city