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political machines
Political machine, in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Homestead act
an area of public land in the West (usually 160 acres) granted to any US citizen willing to settle on and farm the land for at least five years. -
Jim Crow
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
dawes act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations," known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes.
