U.S. History: 1866-1914 Review

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A mass movement of thousands of people to the Yukon Territory in search of gold in the 1890s

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Klondike Gold Rush

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The process of absorbing a new group into the culture of an existing group is

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assimilation

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The process by which non-Americans are gradually made like mainstream Americans is called

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Americanization

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Specific lands guaranteed by the government to belong in perpetuity to Native tribes are called

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Reservations

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A system by which an individual could claim & improve 160 acres for no upfront cost and owned the land after 5 years was set up by which act?

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Homestead Act

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The belief that God ordained the U.S. to expand westward to spread republicanism & capitalism, which encouraged American settlement of the Great Plains and Far West, was called what?

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Manifest Destiny

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An act that broke reservations up into individually-assigned lots, created boarding schools to Americanize native children, and discouraged Native cultural practices was called the

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Dawes Severalty Act

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The railroads were given public lands in order to sell, lease, or rent them to raise funds to construct new rail lines in a system called

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the Federal land grants

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The Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited immigration of Chinese persons and limited the rights of those already in the U.S. including naturalization, was passed in

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1882

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May 10, 1869 marked the completion of which major infrastructure project in the United States?

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Transcontinental Railroad