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assimilation
learning new ideas. can mean a smaller culture being absorbed into a bigger one -
industrialization
changing from farming to manufacturing. more people work in the city -
immigration
people moving from one country to another. all the american settlers were immigrants -
urbanization
people moving from rural to urban areas. more people started to work in cities and eventually moved there. -
rural & urban
rural environments have less people. cities are urban -
homestead act of 1862
us govt gave land to settlers. was made to include all americans -
civil war amendments
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. part of reconstruction -
closing of the western frontier
when there was no more open space with few people. happened a year after oklahoma land rush -
americanization
influence Americans have on other people. can involve people in other countries or immigrants to america -
Americanization
influence of americans on other people. can apply to people in other cultures or american immigrants
