Chapter 14 Social Studies

Tenement

Single-room apartments where working families lived.

Suburbs

The outlying area of cities where people live.

Immigration Push Factors

A desire to escape oppression, poverty, religious discrimination.

Immigration Pull Factors

Jobs, economic opportunities, desire to reconnect with family

members.

Ghetto

A neighborhood filled with people of the same nationality.

Assimilated

Adopting the dress, language, and actions of a culture and society.

Melting Pot Theory

Mixture of people from different cultures who blend together by

abandoning their native languages and cultures.

Great Migration

Two million Af-Am moved out of the South to the Northeast and

Midwest.

Harlem Renaissance

Celebration of Af-Am culture (music, dance, writing) which

contributed to social change.

Inadequate Public services

Cities lack police, firefighters, garbage collection, and schools

Transportation

Horsedrawn carts and electric trolleys

Overcrowding

Entire families in tenements

Social Tensions

Poor and rich lived close to the poor increase in crime