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What is a tenement?
An apartment building shared by several families
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What are the streets?
Location that poor city kids played
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What is mass transit?
The name for public transportation such as trolleys, streecars, and subways.
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What is piecework?
Work done and paid for by the piece.
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What is Ellis Island?
An immigration processing center in New York
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What is jazz?
Form of music that Scott Joplin is famous for
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What is suffrage?
The write to vote.
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What is is bicycling?
A major craze that swept the country in the late 1800s that required wheels and a handlebar.
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What is Angel Island?
An immigration processing center in San Francisco
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What is a sweat shop?
Place where you would work long hard hours, for low wages under poor conditions
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What are immigrants?
People blamed for vilence, poverty, crime, and overcrowding within the city?
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What is a salad bowl?
Term used instead of Melting Pot that demonstrates that immigrants mostly went to live with people of the same nationality when they immigrated to the U.S.
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What is the steel industry?
A prominent industry in Pittsburgh
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What is the Woolworths Building?
The world’s tallest building until 1930. (Hint: Located in New York)
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What are religious freedom, escape from home country's cruelty, and adventures?
Reasons immmigrants came to America.
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What is suburban?
Area from which you could now(late 1800s ) take mass transit into work in the Urban areas.
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What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that segregated and discriminated against African Americans
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What is many people were looking for work?
Main reason a worker might make low wages in 1895.
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What is urbanization?
Term for the rapid growth of a major city.
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What is the reason cities grew like mushrooms in the latter part of the 1800s?
Cities offered all kinds of promises and opportunities for people and they also attracted raw materials and money.
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