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Movement from the American countryside to cities in search of jobs
What is Urbanization
100
Allowed farmers to occupy unsettled land to build homes and farms
What is Homestead Act
100
Poor areas of cities densely populated by people of common language and origin
What is Ethnic Ghetto
100
This was intended to help Indians, it had the opposite effect by giving tribal lands to individual Indians, who often sold them
What is Dawes Act
100
worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions
What is Labor Unions
200
The act of giving one's personal wealth to the benefit of society
What is Philanthropy
200
People who started new businesses based on their inventions, services or ideas
What is Entrepreneur
200
economic system in which private businesses compete free of government control
What is Laissez-Faire
200
organization of people in power who support a larger group in need in exchange for votes
What is Political Bosses
200
A designation of land for Native Americans
What is Reservations
300
What is the name of the cowboy in Toy Story
Woody
300
Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants
What is Nativism
300
a federal law passed in 1890 that committed the American government to opposing monopolies
What is Sherman Anti-Trust Act
300
Prairie region of the central U.S.
What is Great Plains
300
federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices
What is Interstate Commerce Act
400
The time between 1870 and 1900 during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption
What is Gilded Age
400
a train route across the United States finished in 1869
What is Transcontinental Railroad
400
The process of moving to another country to take up permanent residence
What is Immigration
400
the practice of employing minors for low wages and poor working conditions
What is Child Labor
400
a person who wields political power and influence over a region or constituency
What is Political Bosses
500
what date do we take the STAAR test
What is May 4th
500
What does M.A.N.I.A. stand for?
What is Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism,
500
Journalists who exposed the truth
What is muckrakers
500
book written by Upton Sinclair
What is The Junle
500
Name the 3 Progressive presidents
What is Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft