Immigration and Industrialization Vocab

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Period when US appeared wealthy but most were poor

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Gilded Age

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Government non-interference in business

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Laissez-faire

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Money given by the government to boost a specific business or industry.

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Subsidy

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Organized massacre of a group of people

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Pogrom

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Bottom area of the ship for the poorest passengers

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steerage

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Keeping someone in isolation to prevent disease spread

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Quarantine

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Area in a city where a single ethnic group resides.

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ghetto

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Group of landowners agree not to rent/sell to certain people.

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restrictive covenant

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A place for new immigrants to access housing, education, and services.

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Settlement house

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Favoring natural born citizens over immigrants

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Nativism