a person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere. 

A minority that speakes a different language or follows different customs than th majority of the people in the country.

Steerage  

cramped quarters on a ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares.

a place were immigrants ending up in the West Coast were processed 

Assimilate 

to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population 

Nativism 

the belief that those born in a country or superior to immigrants 

the time when the gap between rich and poor was very large 

Tenements 

 a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or saftey 

Slums 

poor, crowded, and run-down urban neighborhoods 

Suburbs 

residential areas that sprang up close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in tranportation 

Lang Grant Colleges 

originally, an agricultural college established as a result of the 1862 that gave states large amounts of federal land that could be sold to raise money for education

Yellow Journalism 

writing which exaggerates sensational, dramatic, and  gruesome events to attract readers 

Settlement House 

institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, libraries, and classes in English. 

Morrill Act 

 gave the states large amounts of federal land that could be sold to raise money for education.

John Dewey 

Tuskegee Institute 

Andrew Carnegie