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| immigrate | to come to a foreign country intending to live there permanently |
| assimilate | to become more similar to a different cultural tradition |
| emigrate | to leave one’s country to settle elsewhere |
| immigration | the movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there |
| opportunity | a favorable, appropriate, or advantageous combination of circumstances |
| wealth | a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property or other riches |
| evicted | forced out of an area/place |
| prosepector | one who searches or explores a region for gold |
| gold fever | greed and excitement caused by a gold rush |
| coolie | an unskilled laborer employed cheaply |
| transcontinental railroad | A train route across the United States finished in 1869 |
| discrimination | treatment in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs |
| prejudice | a feeling without basis that one group is better/worse than another group |
| primary source | documents created during or immediately following the event they describe by people who had firsthand knowledge of the event |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States |
| Literacy Act | all immigrants are excluded from living in the United States who are over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, and who cannot read the English language |
| barrio | a Spanish-speaking quarter or neighborhood in a city or town in the United States especially in the Southwest |
| dialect | a regional variety of language differing in sound and sometimes grammar from that of the standard language of the whole country |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | Settlers of the west were offered to claim 160 acres of land in exchange for 5 years worth of farming the land |
