US History Leap 2025 Review Study Guide

US History Leap 2025 Review Study Guide Assimilation - Answer️️ -Blending in with the dominant group bimetallic standard - Answer️️ -monetary standard based on two metals, usually silver and gold Homesteaders - Answer️️ -Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act. pull factor - Answer️️ -A factor that draws or attracts people to another location push factor - Answer️️ -Factors that induce people to leave old residences. Chinese Exclusion Act - Answer️️ -1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States Dawes Act - Answer️️ -1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners and promised them citizenship Homestead Act - Answer️️ -A law passed by Congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers Battle of Little Bighorn - Answer️️ -Battle between the U.S Army led by Lieutenant Exodusters - Answer️️ -Name given to the former slaves who migrated from the South to the West following the Civil War. forty-niners - Answer️️ -people who went to California during the gold rush of 1849 ©SOPHIABENNETT EXAM SOLUTIONS Saturday, September 7, 2024 6:58 PM Page | 2 Granger Movement - Answer️️ -the agrarian movement organized in the 1870s as a protest against railroad power over the farmers Populsim - Answer️️ -movement of farmers and common people against the elite Wounded Knee Massacre - Answer️️ -mass killing by U.S. soldiers of as many as 300 unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890 Morrill Act - Answer️️ -(1862) Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges. Bessemer Process - Answer️️ -A cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850 Laissez-faire - Answer️️ -Hands off. No government intervention in business. mass production - Answer️️ -the production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line melting pot - Answer️️ -society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture salad bowl - Answer️️ -multiethnic society where various groups interact but maintain distinct cultural qualities Vertical Consolidation - Answer️️ -Gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development Horizontal Consolidation - Answer️️ -The proces