Civil Rights Act of 1866 - announced that all people brought into the world in the United States were presently residents, regardless of race or any condition., 13th Amendment - ratified sanctioned after the Civil War that restricted slavery, Tenure of Office Act - established by revolutionary congress that precluded the President from eliminating common officials without permission., Jim Crow Laws - enforced in the United States, “separate but equal”, Laissez-Faire - pro-business, where government is not involved, Gold Standard - paper money is printed if there is amount of gold that backs it up, Political Machines - businessmen would help communities, but would expect help in return in the voting booth. (Boss Tweed-Tammany Hall), Bessemer Process - process where steel is made stronger and of higher quality, Gilded Age - A seemingly perfect but flawed era of American history in the late 1800s., Social Gospel - A religious application to humanitarianism. Many people called for social reform and to help lower classes., Capitalism - A system where trade is privately owned and controlled for profit., Hull House - Ran by Jane Addams in order to assist poor immigrants in cities. It showed the participation of women in achieving social reform., Populist Party - A third party movement that began in the 1890s, Industrialization - Time period in which social and economic changes had occurred, Migration - Expanded internal improvements and network, Social Change - Debates over citizenship and rights, Sharecropping - a way that was used on the southern farms where the owner of the land would distribute a portion of their crops to the farmers., Ida B Wells - an African American journalist who wanted to get rid of the Lynches at the time and to stop the whites from Discriminating against the black., Social Darwinism - survival of the fittest in the market areas, Chinese Exclusion Act  - to deny the Chinese people from entering the U.S,

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