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1880-1920 Lots of immigrants from S. & E. Europe. Lands provided by the federal gov’t where Natives were resettled. War between settlers/federal troops and Natives. Dawes Act. Law that granted immediate citizenship to natives born in the US. Cyrus McCormick.
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1880-1920 Lots of immigrants from S. & E. Europe Lands provided by the federal gov’t where Natives were resettled War between settlers/federal troops and Natives Dawes Act Law that granted immediate citizenship to natives born in the US Cyrus McCormick American Indian Citizenship Act Fenceless land over which ranchers drove cattle Immigrant processing center in New York California Gold Rush 1949 Problems of Growing Cities Inadequate services and transportation, overcrowding, social tensions Gold found in California – Let’s Go! Ellis Island Open room below water line of a ship where many immigrants traveled Steerage Becoming similar to another group
The process of learning to dress, speak, and act like other Americans Neighborhoods of similar ethnic groups Group born in US that opposed immigration Threatened tribal ways, natives hunters not farmers, poor land and reservation conditions Inventor of the mechanical reaper Problems with Dawes Act Forced removal of Cherokee from GA and put on reservations Western Music “Pull” Factors Music that celebrates cowboy life Reasons for immigration – Freedom, Economic opportunities, Cultural ties Open Range Trail of Tears Case ruling children of Chinese immigrants born in US can’t be denied citizenship Assimilate US v Wong Kim Ark
1st Law to limit immigration – no Chinese immigrants for 10 years Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Work for Leader of the Political Machine The last frontier – mountains, deserts, and basins in the Far West Moving into a country that one is not native to Gold Discovered in Alaska – Let’s Go! Municipal Another word for city Klondike Gold Rush 1896 Great Plains Farmers given land, work it and build homes – 5 years later, it belongs to the farmer Reasons for immigration – Oppression, Poverty, War, Persecution Homestead Act Attempt to “Americanize Natives – families given land Reservations Indian War
Transition of society from countryside to cities Urbanization Political “Bosses” Crowded single room apartments – often no heat or lighting Political Machine Demography Name of city gov’t-usually corrupt Study of population - who lives where Immigration Tenement Political boss of Tammany Hall in New York City Boss Tweed “Push” Factors Nativists Americanization Ethnic Ghettos “New Immigrants”