Continental Railroad Vocab

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Melting Pot

Term used for immigration: brings different cultures into Us to make its own culture

Tammany Hall

the name for a political corrupt organization in NY that took advantage of tax payers

Political Machine

Group who controls a political party and encourages corruption

Homestead Act

Peace act passed by congress, which gave free land in the great plains to increase pop

Dawes Act

Law to move NA; encourages them to leave tribes and assimilate into us culture

Chinese exclusion Act

law passed for chinese to leave US unless they were wealthy enough to stay;

Urbanization

Growth of cities due to immigration

Tenement

App, building that was overcrowded by families due to immigration

Nativism

Believe only worthy people are people who are born in the US

Mass Production

New ways to make more products quicker and cheaper, the assembly line was conducted