America's Growth Flashcards
Federal Immigrant processing center. ( mostly Asian )
Angel Island ( West Coast )
Process of becoming an accepted part of the mainstream. ( forced or voluntary )
Assimilation
First Significant law restricting immigrants. ( forced against the Chinese )
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Confiscated and redistributed tribal lands to force Native Americans to have separate family farms. ( forced assimilation )
Dawes Act of 1887
Federal Immigrant processing center. ( New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. )
Ellis Island ( East Coast )
Funded by the federal government with the Pacific railroad Act, of 1862
( guaranteed public land grants and loans. )
First Transcontinental Railroad
Series of battles and negotiations in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States.
Great Sioux War of 1876-77
Provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
Homestead Acts of the 1860s
A system to remove Natives from some land for white settlers.
Indian Reservation System
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; Native.
Indigenous
Rebel groups of Mexican Natives ( reclaiming their land and preventing further land from being taken )
Las Gorras Blancas ( The White Caps )
Slaughter of approximately 150-300 Lakota Indians-men, women, and children - by U.S. Army
Massacre at Wounded Knee ( 1890 )
The policy of protecting the interests of Native-born on established inhabitants.
Nativism
The artificial division of immigrants into two groups.
So-called “Old immigrants” vs. “New immigrants” in the late 19th & early 20th centuries
The population shifted from rural areas to urban areas during the second industrial revolution.
Urbanization
