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American His- Vocab
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History
10th Grade
01/27/2014

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Migrate
Definition
when a group of people move to a new desired location due to political, economical, or social decline
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Assimilation
Definition
when people of a different cultural background has to come see themselves as part of a larger national family
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imigrate
Definition
when a group of foreign descent come to live permantely in another foreign country
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Nativism
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policy of favoring native inhabintants as opposed to immigrants
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Nationalism
Definition
patriotic feeling, principles or efforts
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Exclusion
Definition
to prevent someone from doign or being apart of a group
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Homestead
Definition
land claimed by settlers
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Imperialism
Definition
policy of extending a countries power and influence through diplomacy or military force
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
policy by US opposing foreign interferences in the Western Hemisphere for outside power
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Roosevelt Corollary
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a collary to the Monroe Doctrine stating that threatened wuth seizures or intervene in the affairs of an American Republic
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Definition
Ordinance that let US territorize land in the West
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Ordinance that let the US survey land in order to territorize it off
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
belief that America can conwuer all land between the two Oceans
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Indian Removal Act
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Act that provided the removal of ALL Natives from their native land to west to the land thats been Surveyed.
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Grange
Definition
A farm, Or a farmhouse without buildings


EX) Tell the Monroe Family We'll be eatin' in the grange.
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Farmers Alliances
Definition

farmer organizations  between 1877 and 1892, mostly in the South and the Plains states. These groups wanted to stop debt, poverty, and low crop prices by educating and mobilizing rural men and women, engaging in helping economic organizing, and asserting their power in electoral politics.

 

EX) The Farmer Alliance of the West has intertwined in that of the East.

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Populism/ Populist
Definition

a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people



EX) I am a Man who supports the rights of this state, so hence forth I am a populist individual

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Bimetallism
Definition
the use of two metals (mainly gold and silver) jointly as a monetary standard with both constituting legal tender at a predetermined ratio
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Gold Standard
Definition
a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold and which is usually characterized by the coinage and circulation of gold, unrestricted convertibility of other money into gold, and the free export and import of gold for settling of international obligations
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Social Dawinism
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Theory that persons, groups, and “races” are subject to the same laws of natural selection

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Sherman Antitrust Act
Definition
an act of Congress (1890) prohibiting any contract, conspiracy, or combination of business interests in restraint of foreign or interstate trade.
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Monopolies
Definition
he exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
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trusts
Definition
firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.
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Unions
Definition
groups of workers that pledge to quit if one or another is treated unfairly in the workforce
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Closed Shop
Definition
a place of work where membership in a union is a condition for being hired and for continued employment.
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Open Shop
Definition
a system whereby employees in a place of work are not required to join a labor union
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Mediation
Definition
intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it.
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AFOL
Definition
a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
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IWOTW
Definition
a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States
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Urbanization
Definition
the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in it
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Tenement
Definition
a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
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Settlement House
Definition
an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
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graft
Definition
a form of political corruption, is the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain
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civil service
Definition
the permanent professional branches of a government's administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians.
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Patronage
Definition
 a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party
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Progressive movement
Definition
 political force that wants reform in all levels of government
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Muckrakers
Definition
one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another 
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Suffrage
Definition

the right to vote in political elections

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drug act
Definition
first federal law prohibiting the interstate transportation and sale of adulterated food enacted by Congress pursuant to its power under the Commerce Clause.
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Meat Inspection Act
Definition
Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions
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Bull Moose Party
Definition
a former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912
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Clayton Antitrust Act
Definition
enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices 
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Federal Reserve System
Definition
the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies
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Income Tax
Definition
tax levied by a government directly on income
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