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The Emergence of Political Machines 

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  • cities experienced rapid growth due to the government in the 19th centry
• The Political Machine
  • the political machine was an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in the

Section 2:

• Laws were passed during 1865 and 1895 that required studentsbetween 8-14 be in school at least 12-16 weeks.
• Children attended school at a younger age
• From 1880 to 1900 kindergartens rose from 200 to 3,000!
• Only 34% of African Americans attende

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Section 7-1

-most immigrants entered the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

-“birds of passage” are immigrants that temporarily immigrate to the US to earn money, and then (when they earned enough money) they would

Ignore Friday's blog, wrong chapter!!!!!

-missouri river tribes-osage and iowa planted crops and settled in villages.

-sioux anc cheyenne gathered food and hunted buffalo

-when native americans in new mexico were given horses in 1598 from the spanish-

Segregation & Discrimanation

Effected:

African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican residents, and Chinese immigrants

Voting Restrictions

  - In southern states blacks couldn't vote or had to be able to read and most times were given harder reading tests