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  1. 1. - is an area outside of a principal city of a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, but is primarily a residential area.
  2. 4. Anti-Trust - The Sherman Anti-Trust Act authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them.
  3. 6. Revolution - The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States
  4. 8. Stratification -Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into rankings based on factors like wealth, income, education, family background, and power.
  5. 9. Darwinism - Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
  6. 11. Island – In 1850, President Millard Fillmore declared Angel Island a military reserve and during the Civil War, the island was fortified to defend San Francisco Bay from potential attack by Confederate forces. Angel Island continued to be an active military installation through World War II
  7. 16. – Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings, popes, and the wealthy have provided to artists such as musicians, painters, and sculptors.
  8. 17. - a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
  9. 19. -Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), byname Wobblies, labour organization founded in Chicago in 1905 by representatives of 43 groups.
  10. 20. Civil Service Act - The Pendleton Act provided that federal government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams. The act also made it unlawful to fire or demote for political reasons employees who were covered by the law.
  11. 22. Bargaining - negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
  12. 26. mobility – Social mobility is the movement in time of individuals, families, or other social units between positions of varying advantage in the system of social stratification of a society.
  13. 27. -A tenement is legally defined in New York by the Tenement House Act of 1867 as "any house, building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied,
  14. 29. -As international migration has moved to center stage in political, policy, and public discussions in countries around the world, it is important to have a sense of who exactly these conversations are about.
  15. 32. Island - From 1892 to 1924, Ellis Island was America's largest and most active immigration station, where over 12 million immigrants were processed. On average, the inspection process took approximately 3-7 hours
  16. 33. - in full American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations, American federation of autonomous labour unions formed in 1955 by the merger of the AFL
  17. 34. - Graft, as understood in American English, is a form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. Political graft occurs when funds intended for public projects are intentionally misdirected in order to maximize the benefits to private interests.
  18. 35. Commerce Act - the Interstate Commerce Act created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad
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  1. 2. - Urbanization refers to the concentration of human populations into discrete areas. This concentration leads to the transformation of land for residential, commercial, industrial and transportation purposes. It can include densely populated centers, as well as their adjacent periurban or suburban fringes
  2. 3. Gospel Movement - The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century.
  3. 5. Railroad – In 1862, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies began building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United
  4. 7. Act – Also known as the General Allotment Act, the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
  5. 10. Age - period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism.
  6. 12. Machine - The Encyclopedia Britannica defines "political machine" as, "in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state".
  7. 13. process -The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development
  8. 14. Unions – The National Labor Union was founded on August 20, 1866, in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first attempt to create a national labor group in the United States and one of their first actions was the first national call for Congress to mandate an 8-hour work day.
  9. 15. - A trust was a new type of industrial organization, in which the voting rights of a controlling number of shares of competing firms were entrusted to a small group of men, or trustees, who thus were able to prevent competition among the companies they controlled.
  10. 18. House – Settlement houses were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.
  11. 21. - Nativism is a reaction against immigrants. Earlier inhabitants of an area or a country sometimes develop a dislike or fear of immigrants.
  12. 23. Movement -The Americanization Movement was a concerted effort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to help new immigrants settle and assimilate into America's civic culture with the intent of promoting patriotism and productivity.
  13. 24. Bosses- In politics, a boss is a person who controls a faction or local branch of a political party. They do not necessarily hold public office themselves; most historical bosses did not, at least during the times of their greatest influence
  14. 25. - Monopolies in American history are large companies that controlled an industry or a sector, giving them the ability to control the prices of the goods and services they provided
  15. 28. Service – The civil service is made up of individuals other than military personnel who are employed by federal, state, or local government entities. These individuals, also known as civil servants, are sometimes referred to as government bureaucrats or career administrators.
  16. 30. Pot - The melting pot is at the heart of the American immigration system. The melting pot comes from the idea that all of the cultural differences in the United States meld together, as if they were metals being melted down to become a stronger alloy.
  17. 31. Resources – a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water. natural resources, the natural wealth of a country