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Unit 4 Vocab
Industrialization + Westward Expansion
Term | Definition |
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assimilation | the absorption of people into the dominant culture |
civil service | nonmilitary government employees |
Dawes Act | an 1887 federal law distributing land to individual Indians rather than to tribes, thereby encouraging Indians to become assimilated |
Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the Great Plains following the civil war |
gold standard | a momentary policy requiring that every paper dollar in circulation be backed by a dollars worth of gold in the U.S. treasury |
Homestead Act | an 1862 federal law that granted tracts of land called homesteads to western settlers who live on it for 5 years |
industrialization | the transformation from producing goods by hand to producing goods by machines |
labor union | a group of workers organized to protect the interests of its members |
philanthropist | a person who gives money to support worthy causes |
political machines | an organization consisting of full time politicians whose main goal is to retain political power and the money and influence that went with it |
populism | a political philosophy that favors the common person's interests or those of wealthy people or business interests |
populist party | a political party founded in 1892 calling for policies to help working people, such as government ownership of railroads and coinage of silver |
reservation | an area of federal land reserved for Indian tribes |
Social Gospel | a religious movement of the late 1800's based on the idea that social reform and Christianity go hand in hand |
transcontinental railroad | a railroad that spans the continent |
urbanization | the growth of cities |