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Great Plains
Region covering grassland in central North America. They extend from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, through central USA to Texas. -
Immigration
the movement of people from a place to the US. first European settlements around 1600. British and other Europeans stayed more on the east coast. Then Africans came as slaves. Immigrants paid the cost of transportation by ocean by becoming servants after they arrived. -
Civil war amendments (13,14,15)
The amendments were made to protect the rights of freedmen after the civil war. the 13th prohibits slavery, 14th is that someone born in the US is a US citizen and the state they were born in citizen, and the 15th stated that African American had the right to vote. -
Assimilation
the process of transforming Native American culture to European American culture. George Washington & Henry Knox were first to make up this idea. policies were based on the idea that when people learned American ways, they would be able to merge traditions with American culture and peacefully join the majority of the society. -
Homestead act of 1862
Western migration was encouraged by giving settlers 160 acres of public land and all they had to do (homesteaders) was pay a small fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Homesteader
A person who claimed land on the Great Plains under the act of 1862. Homesteaders got that land for free because they worked on it for 5 years. -
Transcontinental Railroad
First railroad in the US that was named Pacific Railroad in the beginning the Overland Route. 1,912-mile continuing railroad that's from Omaha, Nebraska to the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. -
Industrialization
It means manufacturing in a factory using machines and labor force, it divided tasks to + production, growth of cities in population and physical size. Having people concentrated into small areas accelerated economic activity producing more industrial growth. -
Closing of the west frontier
When people immigrated to the US it filled up fast. After a year, guy named Frederick Jackson "closed" the frontier so that it meant no more people. -
Rural & Urban
Over the years, people moved from rural to Urban. Improved tech caused the move and it went from 1:20 to 1:4 people who moved. -
Americanization
The US had many immigrants in the early 20th century through the Americanization Movement. It's a variety of programs and campaigns aimed at turning foreigners into Americans. At the turn of the 20th century, millions of immigrants poured into the United States. -
Urbanization
It means to reconstruct the populations from rural (farming) to urban (city) life. many new towns and cities came to be so more people came which became large and attracted employment possibilities and life in towns and cities.
