GILDED AGE VOCAB

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Term for the process of teaching immigrants about U.S. culture and government.

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Americanization

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Many immigrants faced issues like language barriers, but this group restricted new immigrants from entering the country.

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Nativists

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Effects of railroads on the Great Plains due to westward expansion?

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Movement of Native Americans and animals; soil erosion.

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Due to rapid Industrialization in the North, people moved from rural areas to?

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Urbanzied cities

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Land granted to settlers under the Homestead Act was primarily in the Great Plains.

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Great Plains

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U.S. government act regulating railroad prices due to corruption.

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Interstate Commerce Act

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Pendleton Act (1883): Government jobs based on merit, not politics.

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civil service reform

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Andrew Carnegie supported funding libraries, museums, and schools to aid social mobility.

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philanthropy

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Old Immigrants to the U.S. in the early 1900s were from SE Europe.

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SE Europe

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19th-early 20th century: Men aiding immigrants with jobs/housing to control votes?

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political bosses