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Homestead Act of 1862 - correct answer ✔western migration that provided
settlers 160 acres of public land


Frontier Thesis - correct answer ✔Frederick Jackson Turner argues that
American democracy was formed by the American frontier & the moving of the
frontier line and the impact it had on pioneers


Battle of Little Big Horn - correct answer ✔Battle between the Lakota,
Northern Cheyenne, Arapaho tribes & the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the U.S.
Army


American Progress (1872) - correct answer ✔The spirit of America heads
Westward accompanied by prospectors, farmers, and settlers while Native
North
Americans and creatures of the land move away before her advancements.


Dawes Act of 1887 - correct answer ✔outlawed tribal ownership of land and
forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their
families with the promise of future citizenship.


Ghost Dance - correct answer ✔was a new religious movement incorporated
into numerous American Indian belief systems.


Gilded Age - correct answer ✔time between the Civil War & World War I
where the US pop. & econ. grew quickly


Economies of Scale - correct answer ✔proportionate saving in costs gained
by an increased level of production

, Andrew Carnegie - correct answer ✔led the expansion of the American steel
industry, one of the richest people ever, and a leading philanthropist in the US


Gospel of Wealth - correct answer ✔written by Andrew Carnegie about the
wealthy to redistribute their surplus means in a responsible & thoughtful way


Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔the theory that individuals, groups, and
peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants
and animals


Classical Economic Liberalism - correct answer ✔is a political ideology and a
branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with
an emphasis on economic freedom


How the Other Half Lives - correct answer ✔was an early publication of
photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New
York City slums in the 1880s.


Push & Pull Factors - correct answer ✔are those factors which either
forcefully push people into migration or attract them.


Migration Chain - correct answer ✔for companies and even states to
advertise to potential European immigrants in their home countries


Josiah Strong - correct answer ✔an American Protestant and leader of the
Social Gospel

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