The Glided Age Vocabulary

Promontory Point

• cape or southernmost point of the peninsula formed where the Promontary Mountains project in the northern Great Salt Lake

Ellis Island

• in upper N.Y. Bay, was the gateway fr over 12 million immigrants to the U.S. as the U.S busiest immigrant inspection station for over 60 years from 1892 until 1954

Angel Island

• an island in San Francisco Bay

Old Immigration

• arrived in the mid-1800s, coming mostly from northwestern Europe, immigrants migrated to escape problems in their native countries and in search of new opportunities in America

New Immigration

• arrived a generation later compared to old immigrants, traveling mostly from southeastern Europe

Melting Pot

• a metaphor for a society where many different types of people blend together as one; differences become less important than unity

Nativism

• the theory that concepts, mental capacites, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned

Chinese Exclusion Act

• was a u.s. federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration or chinese laborers

Gentlemen's Agreement

• 1907
• was an informal agreement between the U.S. and the Empire of Japan whereby the U.S. wouldnt impose restriction on Japanese immigration

Tenements

• a multi-occupancy building of any sort, however in the U.S., it has come to refer most specifically to a run-down apartment buliding or to a slum

Urbanization

• refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency