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immigration
a person of a different country goes into another and gets citizenship and rights. -
Civil War Amendments;13
no longer have to do a cruel and unusual punishment. -
14th amendment
he amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
15th amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" -
Assimilation
early 1800s the U.S. government adopted policies aimed at acculturating and assimilating Indians into European-American society -
rural and urban
rural is very populated
urban is not so populated -
Great Plains
The Homestead Act and the Morrill Act were the two important land-grant acts that were passed in the Great Plains during the mid-1800s to help open the West to settlers -
Industrialisation
the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. -
Homesteader
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Homestead Act of 1862
President Abraham Lincoln encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. -
closing of the western frontier
Frederick Jackson Turner and the frontier. A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed. -
Americanization
The influence American culture and business practices popular culture technology or political events. bringing an American thing AE McDonalds to a foreign country like Japan. -
Urbanization
the process of making an area more urban
