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| To leave one's country of residence for a new one |
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| People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture. |
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| The cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship |
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| A shop that made workers work long hours for little pay. |
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| The process of being asorbed into ones cultural group |
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| An aparment used by many immagrants,due to no money,most tenements had 12 people living in an aparment,most were dirty. |
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| A section of a city marked with poverty and poor conditions. |
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| A residental area located near a city. |
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| A substantial growth in population in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper class during the post-Civil War era |
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| A center in an underprivileged area that provides community services |
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| Institutions of higher education in the United States designated by each state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Act |
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| Yellow journalism, also known as the "Yellow Press", is a type of journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of eye-catching headlines that sell more newspapers |
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| Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another |
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| Government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations |
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| A special trust or business trust is a business entity formed with intent to monopolize business, to restrain trade, or to fix prices. |
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| A muckraker seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public |
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| A person who promotes suffrage |
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| A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages |
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| Trust-busting is any government activity designed to break up trusts or monopolies. |
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| The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon four basic ideas of "Conservation", "Regulating Business Monopolies", "Enforcing the Anti-Trust Act", and "Supporting Progressive Ideas" |
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| The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs |
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| The preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources |
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| Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice |
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