Gilded Age Vocabulary

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Homestead Act

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encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land

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Union Pacific Railroad

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Irish immigrants were used by this company to build the transcontinental railroad.

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Central Pacific Railroad

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began in the west and hired Chinese immigrants

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Promontory Point

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Site in Utah of completion of the first transcontinental railroad

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Ellis Island

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New York Harbor immigration station for European immigrants

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Angel Island

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San Francisco Bay immigration station for Asian immigrants

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Old Immigration

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Occurred before the 1890s and was primarily of people from Northern and Western Europe.

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New Immigration

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Occurred after the 1890s and was primarily composed of people from Southern and Eastern Europe.

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Melting Pot

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the mixture of cultures, ideas, and peoples in the United States.

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Nativism

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prejudice against foreign-born people