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The practice of employing minors for low wages and poor working conditions.

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Child Labor

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A large business entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.

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Corporation

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Intended to help Native Americans, it had the opposite effect by giving tribal lands to individual Native Americans, who often sold them.

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Dawes Act

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People who started new businesses based on their inventions, services, or ideas.

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Entrepreneur

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Poor areas of cities densely populated by people of common language and origin.

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Ethnic Ghettos

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The time between 1870 and 1900 during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption.

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Gilded Age

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Prairie region of the central U.S

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Great Plains

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Allowed farmers to occupy unsettled land to build homes and farms.

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Homestead Act

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The process of moving to another country to take up permanent residence.

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Immigration

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Federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.

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Interstate Commerce Act