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Someone who is a descendant of the first people to live in North and South America.
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American Indian
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Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens
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Americanization
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Someone who is a descendant of the first people to live in North and South America.
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Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens
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education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture
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men in charge of big businesses; John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan
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(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. American workers felt threatened by the job competition.
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dishonest or illegal actions
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Late 1800s to Early 1900s - time of large increase in wealth caused by industrialization
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vast grassland between the mississippi river and the rocky mountains
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1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
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the basic framework of a building or a system
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Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
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a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their Roman Catholic beliefs on society
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Leaders of political machines that bribed citizens in order to receive votes
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The financial gain made in a transaction
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Businesspeople who paid low wages to employees, and took advantage or ignored the laws.
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countryside
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A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation.
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Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US
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A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
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laws that stop monopolies from forming or existing
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city
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An amount of money paid to an employee at a specified rate per hour worked
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support for the concerns of ordinary people
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A monetary system in which paper money and coins are equal to the value of a certain amount of gold
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money that has value because the government has ordered that it is an acceptable means to pay debts
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charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
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Established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) - monitors the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people between states - created to regulate railroad prices
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Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling
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the rate at which electrical energy is converted to another form of energy
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Increased Communication across great distances - Alexander Graham Bell
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Edwin Drake--discovered how to harness oil. Led to profits in Texas in the oil, plastic, and chemical industries.
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increased after the Bessemer Process made production more affordable and stable
