Industrialization
Why did many people move to urban areas during the 1800s?
Job Oppurtunities
What city is the statue of liberty in?
NYC
Speaking and acting American is ______
Americanization
What do Nativists want to restrict
Immigration
What were many of the houses built out of in the Great Plains
Sod
What jobs were most of the new workers to cities doing?
Factories, Mines, Workshops
Name one thing that immigrants came to America for
Jobs
Whrn people join a culture it is called ______
Assimilation
How do Nativists feel about people of other races?
They feel they are inferior
The massive movement of settlers from the East to West was mostly because of what law?
Homestead Act
The explosion of growths in cities led to unprecedented levels of what?
immigration
What immigrant group was Roman Catholic & going through a famine?
Irish
The fact that many different immigrant groups being put together often leads to America being called a ______
Melting Pot
What law was passed in 1882 to limit immigration of one type of people?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What did the Homestead Act give people?
160 Acres of land
When a company buys all of their competitors it's called?
Horizontal integration
Where were "new Immigrants primarily from?
Southern and Eastern Europe
The Dawes Act was an attempt to assimilate what group of people?
Native Americans
The character that often is used to symbolize the USA is cartoon is who?
Uncle Sam
What animal was nearly eradicated by settlers shooting from trains?
buffaloes
When businesses control all of the parts of the supply line its known as what
vertical integration
What religion were many of the new immigrants
Catholic, Jew, Orthodox Christian
What was given to Native Americans thru the Dawes Act
Land to farm
What line of work did many of the Chinese immigrants work in?
Railroads
Why was farming in the Great Plains lack luster for many
Lack of rain