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| assimilation into American culture |
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| island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline |
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| take in and understand fully. |
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| an agreement with legal force, in particular. |
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| United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama |
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| United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882 |
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| a farm, business, or other organization that is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits. |
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| a system of money in general use in a particular country. |
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| reduction of the general level of prices in an economy. |
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| the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex. |
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| island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States |
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| leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another. |
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| of or relating to a population subgroup within a larger or dominant national or cultural group with a common national or cultural tradition. |
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| the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. |
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| The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in the 1870s and 1880s. |
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| American politician from New York. |
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| period following roughly from the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century. |
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| is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. |
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| A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable base amount increases. |
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| a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap. |
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| African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. |
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| come to live permanently in a foreign country |
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| a thing that motivates or encourages one to do something. |
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| a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control. |
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| a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. |
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| Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer |
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| pioneer settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. |
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| laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans |
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| architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function |
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| (of a mob) kill (someone), esp. by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. |
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| writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
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| the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. |
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| a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments; "party bosses have a reputation for corruption" |
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| a former political party in the United States; formed in 1891 to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads |
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| the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed esp. by the generous donation of money to good causes. |
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| a group that controls the activities of a political party |
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| a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources. |
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| the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite |
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| in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town. |
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| the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. |
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| an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community |
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| a very tall building of many stories. |
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| the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals |
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| Christian faith practiced as a call not just to personal conversion but to social reform. |
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| the part of a ship providing accommodations for passengers with the cheapest tickets. |
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| a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim. |
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| of or characteristic of a suburb |
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| a piece of land held by an owner. |
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| cause (an event or situation) to happen or exist. |
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| denoting or relating to popular dance music of black origin. |
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| the condition of being urbanized |
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| American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. |
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| American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major |
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| United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes |
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| 25th President of the United States; was assassinated by an anarchist (1843-1901) |
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