Across
- 3. An example of a closeknit community of the same ethnic background who helped each other and created a sense of belonging.
- 5. The class that poor immigrants could afford to travel on their journey to America.
- 7. These kinds of persecutions drove people to leave their home country and come to America.
- 11. Three square miles destroyed, 300 dead, and 18,000 homeless due to this tragic event.
- 13. This industry grew because more people were being educated and could read.
- 14. To become a part of a different culture from your own, learn and adopt that culture’s language and traditions, and belong and blend.
Down
- 1. The first professional baseball team.
- 2. A kind of news reporting that exaggerated the truth to get readers interested.
- 4. After a hard work week, people could leave the office or factory and have time to themselves to enjoy.
- 6. Buildings that were divided into several very small apartments that housed the poor working class in large numbers.
- 8. The ethnic group that was blamed in the myth that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern in the barn causing the great fire of Chicago.
- 9. This immigrant from Hungary started the first mass produced and circulated modern newspaper.
- 10. The fast growth of populations within cities.
- 12. The idea that America offered a better life to immigrants
- 13. A belief that America should be only for white, native-born Protestants and not for the new immigrants.