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What is a homestead?
A settler's house and land.
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What is a reservation?
land that government set aside or reserved for native americans
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what is rapid transit?
a system of trains used to move people around cities
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What does productivity mean?
the amount of work each person can do
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What is a labor union?
organization of workers
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What did the Homestead Act do?
It offered land to settlers who agreed to live on the land and farm it for five years.
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What does assimilate mean?
to change a group's culture or tradition so that it blends in with another group
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What is persecution?
unfair treatment
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Who were the Progressives?
reformers who wanted to make cities and factories cleaner and safe
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Why did the African Americans move to the Great Plains?
They faced prejudice and violence
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How did the government force them to assimilate?
they made some of their religious practices illegal
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When was the first skyscraper built and where?
CHicago 1885
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What is an ethnic group?
a group of people that share a culture or language.
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What is the Neighborhood Guild?
first settlement house in united states
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what is sod?
grass covered dirt held together by thick roots
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What is the Dawes Act?
forced native americans to become farmers and took land away from native americans
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What did skyscrapers make possible?
for more people to live and work in cities than ever before
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WHy did Congress pass laws to stop immigration?
Because people were worried that their jobs would be taken away because they work hard for very little pay
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What is the settlement house?
a community center for people in the ciites
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What were some of the hardship of the gReat Plains?
-winters were long and cold -little rain in summer -prairie fires -insects that ate crops
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What technology made cities grow and change?
Electric light bulb..stores stayed open longer, streets were safer
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What was the Great Migration?
When African Americans left the rural areas to go to cities for jobs and to get away from unfair treatment and violence.
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What is a tenement?
a poorly built apartment building
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What did the Neighborhood Guild help do?
-help people learn english -get medical care -find jobs
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