Unit 1-3 Review

Vast, mostly flat, grassland in the middle of the country used by settlers for large agricultural farms.

• The Dakotas

• California

• The Great Plains

• The PacificNorthwest

The act passed to assimilate Native Americans by eliminating tribal ownership of land and assigning it to individuals

• The Homestead Act

• Morrill Land Grants

• The Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

the social process in which one group gives up their cultural practices to better fit into "main stream" culture

• The Homestead Act

• Assimilation

• Social Darwinism

• The Gospel of Wealth

ideas, behaviors, and policies which favor the wishes “native-born” citizens of a country over those of immigrants.

• Nativists

• Assimilation

• Political Machines

• Social Gospel

Built in mid 1800s, Allowed increased travel, migration to West and transportation of goods back to East Coast markets

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Gilded Age

• Canals

• Henry Ford's Assembly Line

This act offered 160 acres of free land for settlers in the Great Plains if cultivated for 5 years

• The Pacific Railway Act

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Homestead Act

It lasted from 1850-1890 and was characterized by the Gold Rush, railroad, and people moving to CA, NM, and more

• Reconstruction

• Westward Expansion

• The Gilded Age

• The Progressive Era

U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing mainly farmers, favoring free coinage of silver

• Republicans

• Democrats

• Populists

• Progressives

the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities

• Gilded

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Assimilation

This meeting is often considered the first national women's rights convention in the United States

• The Atlanta Constitution

• Seneca Falls Convention

• The 1st Constitutional Convention

• The Boston Meetings