Rise of Industrialization

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What was passed in 1862 that provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it, encouraging westward migration?

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Homestead Act

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An act that removed Indian land from tribal possession, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote individualism.

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Dawes Act

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The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

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Assimilation

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Removed Native American children from their family and tribes. Sent them to boarding schools to force them to assimilate to "white culture"

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Indian Residential Schools

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The withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of federal protection of black civil and voting rights in the South

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The Compromise of 1877

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An 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Limited the rights of blacks. Allowed old slave codes to control actions of newly freed slaves in the South.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Putting to death a person by illegal action of a mob

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Lynching

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Condition of being deprived the right to vote

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Disenfranchisement

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Former slave that promoted leaving the South for Kansas.

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Pap Singleton