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Steerage   the most basic and cheapest accommodations on a steamship  
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Ellis Island   served as the processing center for many of the immigrants arriving on the Est Coast after 1892  
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Angel Island   Cal. opened a barracks to accommodate the Asian immigrants  
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Nativism   is an extreme dislike for foreigners by native-orn people and a desire to limit immigration  
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Chinese Exclusion Act   the law that barred chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the chinese already in the country from becoming citizens  
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Taiping Rebellion   erupted chinese homeland and caused thousands of chinese to head for the U.S.  
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Immigration   movement of foreigners to the u.s.  
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Skyscraper   tall steel frame buildings began to appear on American skylines  
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Political machine   an informal political group designed to gain and keep power, came about party because cities had grown much faster than their governments  
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Party boss   provided neccessities for the political machines  
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Patronage   government jobs went to supporters of the winning party in an election  
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Kickback   is an official's share of misappropriated funds allocated from his or her organization to an organization involved in corrupt bidding  
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Graft   fraud; getting money through dishonest or questionable means  
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Gilded Age   Novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Warner and also known as the era between 1870 to 1900.  
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Social Darwinism   Argued that society progressed and became better because only the fittest people survived  
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Stalwarts   local bosses of the Republican political machines  
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Halfbreeds   Republican reformers  
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Pendelton Act   1883 congress passed this law and it allowed the president to decide which federal jobs would be filled according to rules laid down by a bipartisan  
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Interstate Commerce Commission   Period of violence culminated in 1866 when a bomb exploded at a labor demonstration in Haymarket Square in Chicago  
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Mckinley Tariff   Lowered federal revenue and transformed the nation’s budget surplus into a budget deficit  
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Sherman Anti-trust Act   Declared illegal any combination in the form of trust or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states.  
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Grange   the nation’s first national farm organization, the Patrons of Husbandry, better known as...  
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Farmer's Alliance   Organization that addressed problems for the farmers similar to the grange but was more effective  
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Populist   Members of the Kansas Alliance formed the people's party which is also known as..  
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Prohibition Party   is a political party in the United States best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages  
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Greenback   paper currency that could not be exchanged for gold or silver coins  
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Goldbugs   believed the american currency should be based only on gold  
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Silverites   believed coining silver in unlimited quantities would solve the nation's economic crisis  
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Graduated income tax   taxed higher earnings more heavily  
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Sherman Silver Act   authorized the U.S. Treasury to purchase 4.5 milion ounces of silver per month  
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Gold Standard Act   U.S. officially adopted a gold-based currency  
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Jim Crow Laws   Statutes enforcing segregation  
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Pool tax   Required that all citizens registering to vote pay a sum of $2, which was beyond the means of most poor African Americans  
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Grandfather clause   Allowed any man to vote if he had an ancestor on the voting rolls in 1867  
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Lynchings   executions without proper court proceedings, carried out by mobs each year  
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Segregation   i. Separation of the races, was different because laws enforced and perpetuated the discrimination  
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Plessy v Furguson   Supreme court upheld the law and expressed a new legal doctrine endorsing “separate but equal facilities for A.A.’s  
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Wabash v Illinois   ruled that the stateof Illinois could not restrict the rates that the Wabash Railroad charged for traffic between states because only federal government could regulate interstate commerce  
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