Unit 3 The Gilded Age

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Assimilation

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The process in which a minority group adopts the culture, language, and behaviors of the dominant culture group.

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Exodusters

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Nickname for African Americans who migrated out of the south and into the west looking for better opportunities.

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General Allotment Act/Dawes Act

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Allotment means to divide and distribute. The law allotted smaller plots of reservation lands to individual Native Americans, rather than setting it aside for an entire Native nation.

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Gilded Age

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A time period (1870 – 1900) marked by tremendous economic and technological growth that appears golden on the outside but with serious social and political problems existing underneath.

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Homestead Act

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Passed to help settle the west which included providing free land (160 acres) to citizens who built a home on and improved the land.

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Native American boarding schools

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Sought to change the cultural beliefs of indigenous people in all aspects of life, including religion, family structure, and language.

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Reservations

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Land reserved for Native Americans who were forced from their ancestral land.

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Vaqueros

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Spanish word for “cowboy.”

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Bimetallism

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A policy that would give either gold or silver in exchange for paper dollars, rather than only gold.

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Bonanza farms

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Extremely large farms (75,000 acres) that grew one crop and were owned by investors.