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Chapter 19 Vocab
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Frontier | Unsettled or Sparsely settled area occupied largely by Native Americans. |
| Great Plains | The area from the Missouri River to the rocky mountains |
| Homestead Act | This law offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for five years` |
| Dawes Act | A law,enacted in 1887, that distributed reservation land to individual owners |
| Gilded Age | An era during the late 1800's of fabulous wealth |
| Urbanization | Growth of cities resulting from industrialization |
| New Immigrants | A person from southern or eastern Europe who entered the Unites States after 1900 |
| Mass Culture | A common culture experienced by large numbers of people |
| Leisure | Free Time |
| Vaudeville | A from of live stage entertainment with a mixture of songs,dance,and comedy |
| Ragtime | A blend of African-Americans and European musical forms,was an important new type of music |
| Jim Crow | Laws meant to enforce separation of white and black people in public places in the south |
| Segregation | Separation,especially of races |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | An 1896 case in which the supreme court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal |
| Populist Party | Also know as the people's party and formed in the 1890's, this group wanted a policy that would raise crop prices |
| William Jennings Bryan | Nominated for president of Nebraska in 1896 |
| Progessivism | An early 20th-century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people,to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in America Life |
| Theodore Roosevelt | First progressive president |
| William Howard Taft | Had a reputation as a conservative |
| Woodrow Wilson | was elected president in 1912 |
| Imperialism | The policy by which stronger nations extended their economics, political, or military control over nations or territories |
| Spanish-American War | A war in 1819 that began when the Unites States demanded Cuba's independence from spain |
| Yellow Journalism | A style of journalism that exaggerated and Sensationalizes the news |
| Platt Amendment | A result of the Spanish-American war which gave the United States the right to intervene in Cuban affairs when there was a threat |
| Panama Canal | A shortcut through panama that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean |
| Roosevelt Corollary | 1904 president Roosevelt added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine |
| Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's goals from peace after World War 1 |
| Great Migration | The movement of puritans from England to establish settlements around the world, including 20,000 who sailed to America;the movement of African-Americans between 1900 to Northern cities from the South |
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