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5-6 vocab history
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| melting pot | society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture |
| nativism | belief that native-born white Americans are superior to newcomers |
| urbanization | expansion of cities and or the number of people living in them |
| mass transit | public transportation systems that carry a large number of people |
| tenement | multistory building divided into apartments to house as many people as possible |
| gilded age | term coined by Mark Twain to descrive the post-reconstruction era which was characterized by a facade of prosperity |
| vaudeville | type of show, including dancing, singing, and comedy sketches, that became popular in the late nineteenth century |
| cash crop | crop grown for sale |
| civil rights act of 1875 | law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation |
| farmers' alliance | network of farmers' organization that worked for political and economic reforms |
| reservation | public land where native americans were forced to live by the federal government |
| sand creek massacre | 1864 incident in which colorado militia killed a camp of cheyenne and arapaho indians |
| battle of little big horn | 1876 battle in which sioux defeated US army troops |
| wounded knee | 1890 confuntation between us cavalry and sioux that marked the end of indian resistance |
| homestead act | 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years |
| exoduster | African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war |
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