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| 8040445746 | ellis island | Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892. The "Golden Door" thru which 75% of the immigrants entered the country. |  | 0 |
| 8040445747 | angel island | Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the West Coast in San Francisco harbor. Longer interrogations. The focus of this station was to determine which Chinese immigrants met one of the exceptions of the Chinese Exclusion Act. |  | 1 |
| 8040445748 | tuberculosis | An infectious disease that may affect almost all tissues of the body, especially the lungs. Spread easily in overcrowded cities. |  | 2 |
| 8040445749 | progressive | a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties |  | 3 |
| 8040445750 | nativism | A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones. Nativists were individuals opposed to high levels of immigration. |  | 4 |
| 8040445751 | Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States |  | 5 |
| 8040445752 | urbanization | the growth of cities and the migration of people into them |  | 6 |
| 8040445753 | tenement | poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived |  | 7 |
| 8040445754 | challenges of urbanization | economic development poverty affordable housing segregation community conflict environmental suburban sprawl | 8 | |
| 8040445755 | social gospel movement | a movement emphasizing the application of Christian principles to social problems |  | 9 |
| 8040445756 | settlement house | community center providing help to immigrants and the poor |  | 10 |
| 8040445757 | jane addams | the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes |  | 11 |
| 8040445758 | hull house | Settlement house founded by progressive reformer Jane Adams in Chicago in 1889 |  | 12 |
| 8040445759 | conditions on the ships | crowded, unsanitary, low food, suffocating | 13 | |
| 8040445760 | immigration inspections | medical exam, if healthy could enter (medical and legal) |  | 14 |
| 8040445761 | primary source | Firsthand account of a historical event. Diary or eyewitness account. From the time period being studied. |  | 15 |
| 8040445762 | secondary source | Second hand account. Information has been processed and an interpretation has been made about the importance/ value of the content. A history textbook. |  | 16 |
| 8040445763 | new immigrants vs old immigrants | Two waves of immigrants came to the U.S. The first came from England, Ireland and Germany (Northwestern Europe), the second wave came from Russia, Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Southern and Eastern Europe). |  | 17 |
| 8040445764 | ethnic enclaves | Location with high concentration of one ethnicity. These can slow assimilation. i.e. Little Italy or Chinatown |  | 18 |
| 8040445765 | alien | 19 |
