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24 Cards in this Set
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Name & Describe the civil war Amendments:
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13th- banned slavery 14th- made African American Citizens 15th- gave African Americans the right to vote.
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segregation
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to separate the races to keep them apart- in such situations housing schools, restrooms, drinking fountains, etc.
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Carpetbagger
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A nickname for a Nothern who went South during reconstruction in the hope of getting rich.
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Sharecropper
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a farmer that worked on land owned by another person- many freed slaves in the south after the Civil War became sharecroppers.
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Transcontinental Railroad
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A railroad the stretches across a continent- the first US transcontinental Railroad was built in 1863 by the Union Pacific & Central Pacific Railroad.
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Homestead Act
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A law passed in 1862 to encourage people to settle in the West by giving a farmer 160 acres of free land.
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Free Ennterprise System
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an economy in which private citizens own business.
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Mass Productive
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produce large ammounts of goods quickly and cheaply.
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Corporation
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a business that is owned by investors who buy share of stock.
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Monopoly
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a company that controlls all or nearly all the business of an industry.
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Trust
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a group of corporation run by a single board or directors.
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Strikes
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used by unions to win their demands from employers.
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Push Factors
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the condition the push people to leave their homelands to permanently settle in a new country.
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Pull Factors
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the conditions that attract people to leave their homelands to settle in a new country.
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Ethnic group
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a group of people, who share a common culture, often associated with groups of immigrants living to either in the same section of a city
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Old VS. New Immigration
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Old were Northwestern European immigrants- earlier 1800's New were Southern and Eastern Euro cans Asian immigrants.
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Assimilation
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The process of becoming part of another culture, immigrabt children often found it easier to adapt to a new culture and customs that did adult immigration.
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Melting Point VS. Multiculturalism
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Melting Pot- the belief that the US should accept immigrants and the immigrants should ass imilate or adopt the American culture and customs instead of their own cultures and customs Multiculturalism- belief that the US has a variety of cultures, each is unique and welcomed.
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Growth of the cities
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rew fast in th 1800's due to industrialization and the flood of immigrants who took up residence- man came looking for jobs.
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Purpose of skyscrapers
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they were built due to the lack of space in downtown city areas.
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Civil Service
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refers to all federaljobs ( except elected positions and the armed services), one must tske an exam, and only those with the highest scores are qulified to get the jobs- helped to stop the spoil system and patronage.
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Spoil System
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Practice or rewarding supporters with government jobs- this practice led to corruption 7 later Congress established the Civil Service commision in 1833 to end this corruption.
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Muckrakers
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reporters and journalists who reported on corrupt politicans and othr problems im=n society, for example, Uptojn Sinclair wrote The Jungle about the gruesomedetails of the meat oacking industry- Thomas Nast's cartoons ruined Boss Tweed.
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