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Homestead Act
Opened the West for settlement by individual farmers -
Chinese Exclusion Act
An act that stopped Chinese immigrants from staying in the U.S and suspended workers as well. It was signed by Chester A. Aurthur. -
Urban Development
Cities with many inhabitants move outside the city center to avoid overcrowding. It continued to the 1880's -
Immigrants Helping Urbanization
Immigrants from the South and Southeastern Europe provided workers and consumers for burgeoning urban marketplaces -
Settlement Movement
Reformist movement that tried to get the rich to share knowledge and culture with people that have lower-income. It started peaking around the 1920's -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Based on this case, the Supreme Court ruled that everyone is "separate but equal." Meaning that blacks and whites are segragated but have the same rights.
