Elsener Us History 1 1.2 Crt Vocab.

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Americanization of, for example, Native Americans or immigrants, culturally changing them to be like the majority in political control.

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Assimilation

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In economics, ___________ is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent either to a certain quantity of gold or to a certain quantity of silver. In the United States, toward the end of the nineteenth century, bimetallism became a center of political conflict.

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Bimetallic standard

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Congressman from Nebraska, three-time presidential candidate (1896, 1900, and 1908), and later Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.

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William Jennings Bryant

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He was an industrial know for his vertical monopoly in the steel business during the 1800s.

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Andrew Carnegie

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This type of labor was common during the 1800s Industrial Revolution but is highly regulated today.

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Child Labor

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Federal law passed on May 6, 1882, that suspended Chinese immigration, a ban that lasted well over 60 years.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Towns where cattle were driven to and through in the years after the Civil war. Many were in Kansas.

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Cow Towns

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An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.

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The Dawes Severalty Act

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The place immigrants from Europe were processed.

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Ellis Island

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William Jennings Bryan wanted the United States to use silver to back the dollar at a value that would inflate the prices farmers received for their crops, easing their debt burden. This position was known as the _____________.

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Free Silver

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_______________ was an informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan whereby the U.S. would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration or students, and Japan would not allow further immigration to the U.S.

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Gentle Men’s Agreement

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A portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.

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Ghettoes

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The ___________ in America gets its name from the many great fortunes created during this period after the Civil War during the Industrial Revolution and the way of life this wealth supported.

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Gilded Age

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A monetary system in which a region's common media of exchange are paper notes that are freely convertible into pre-set, fixed quantities of gold.

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Gold Standard

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______________ was enacted by seven southern states during and after the reconstruction era to prevent freedmen from voting. The clause, designed to negate the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allowed black men to vote, significantly reduced African American political participation well into the 20th Century.

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Grandfather Clause

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_____________ was the movement of approximately seven million African-Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930.

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Great Migration

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Passed by Congress in 1862 it was the culmination of more than 70 years of controversy over the disposition of public lands.

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Homestead Act

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The movement of people coming to live in the United States from other countries is ___________________

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Immigration

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Wars fought between the Native Americans and the United States in the western states during the middle to late 19th century ending with Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.

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Indian Wars

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State and local laws in the southern United States enacted between 1876 and 1965 that mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Pro businessmen called her the most dangerous woman in America. She was a forceful figure of the American labor movement". Seventy-eight years after her death, her name is still part of current culture, as the title of a magazine.

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Mary Harris Jones or Mother Jones