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Tenements
a building in which several families rented rooms.
Settlement houses
provided medical care, playgrounds, Libraries, nurseries and class.
Assimilate
become a part of American culture.
gilden age
suggested both the extravagant wealth of the time and the terrible poverty that laid underneath.
Regionalism
writing that focus on a particular region.
Yellow journalism
a name that came from the paper's popular comic strip.
Ethnic groups
minorities that spoke different languages or followed different customs.
Land grant college
money given from the states to make schools.
Steerage
cramped noisy quarters on the lower decks.
Ragtime
dominant force in popular music,
Vaudeville
variety shows with dancing, singing, comedy, and magic acts.
Realism
approach to literature that sought to describe the real lives of people.
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