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APUS
Unit 7
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History
11th Grade
01/13/2010

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Term
What was the U.S. policy during the long period of Indian wars?
Definition

The U.S. Army favored extermination.

The U.S. Indian Vureau offered food, weapons and sanctuary to them.

Term
What was another change in policy?
Definition
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
Term
What was the intent of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?
Definition
to assimilate the Indians into the mainstream of American culture
Term
What were some responses to the "Ghost Dance" movement among certain indians duriing the final Indian Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?
Definition

A religious cult was determined to resist U.S. domination

Use of magic to neutralize whites' weapons

Rejected use of alcohol

Use of violence if necessary to oppose white dominance

Term
What was the method to end the independence of the Indians and how would this method end independence?
Definition

KILL THE BUFFALO

The Plains Indians culture revolved around the buffalo. If the buffalo were killed off, then the Indian would need to become farmers.

 

Term
What were the provisions of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?
Definition

Dissolved the community-owned tribal lands

Gave 160 acres of land to individuals

Those who accepted land were granted U.S. citizenship

Term
Describe the Homestead Act of 1862 which expanded settlement.
Definition
160 acres of federal land FOR FREE once a settles had lived on it for 5 years and made improvements.
Term
What was a farmer's greatest anger directed toward?
Definition
railroads.
Term
What did Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 do?
Definition
set definite territorial limits for each tribe which was a strange concept for Nomadic tribes.
Term
   How did the Mass-Circulation Press attract more readers?
Definition
newspapers printed sensationalist stories of crime and disasters and scandal
Term
What was the Battle of the Little Bighorn known as?
Definition
"Custer's Landstand"
Term
Vaudeville
Definition
inexpensive show with a variety of people
Term
What is yellow journalism?
Definition
use of colored ink in comics in papers
Term
List some factors favoring a return to expansionism.
Definition
  1. Need for worldwide markets and new sources of raw materials.
  2. A "saftey valve" for unrest at home.
  3. Social Darwinism.
  4. Age of Imperialism.
  5. Support of influential people.

 

Term
Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?
Definition

a writer who wrote a very influential book

-Influence of Sea Power Upon History

said that a strong navy was crucial to obtaining foreign markets and becoming a world power

advocated a steel navy, colonial empires, worldwide naval bases, and the building of a canal across Central America

his book was read by influential people who could put his ideas into action

Term
What were the immediate causes of the Spanish-American War of 1898?
Definition

De Lôme Letter (February 9, 1898)

Sinking of Maine (February 15, 1898)

Term
Teller Amendment
Definition
  • passed by Congress the same day of the declaration of war
  • said that when the war was over, the U.S. would NOT take over Cuba→it would become independent
  • guaranteed the sovereignty of Cuba
Term
Mark Twain
Definition

wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

realist author

Term
Stephen Crane
Definition

wrote The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

realist author

Term
Jack London
Definition

wrote The Call of the Wild

realist author

Term
Theodore Dreiser
Definition

wrote Sister Carrie

realist author

Term
Henry James
Definition

wrote The Bostonians and Portrait of a Lady

use of "psychological realism"

Term
Realist artists
Definition

Winslow Homer

Thomas Eakins

Term
Theory of evolution.
Definition
cast doubt on the literal interpretation of the bible
Term
Grandfather clause.
Definition
even if a man failed the literacy test and did not pay the poll tax, he could vote IF he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before 1867
Term
Booker T. Washington
Definition
  • head of the industrial school, Tuskegee Institute
  • believed it was most important for blacks to learn a useful trade
  • advocated economic equality
  • did not advocate social or political equality
Term
W.E.B. DuBois
Definition
  • strongly opposed Booker Washington
  • A northerner who was the first black to earn a PhD from Harvard
  • wanted "talented tenth"
  • involved in the founding of Niagara Movement for civil rights which favored integration
Term
NAACP
Definition
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Term
Which two publishers in NY competed with each other for readers?
Definition
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • William Randolph Hearst
Term
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851
Definition
  • tribes would receive payments for transit rights of settlers
  • set definite territorial limits for each tribe
Term
Sand Creek Massacre (November 1864)
Definition
  • Colorado enlistees led by Colonel John M. Chivington attacked a group of peaceful Indians
  • 200 killed, moslty  women and children
Term
A Century of Dishonor
Definition
  •  published 1881
  • written by Helen Hunt Jackson
  • Told of government mistreatment of the Indians
  • created awareness of the wrongs inflicted on the Indians
Term
Siox chiefs
Definition

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

one force was led by George Armstrong Custer

Term
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Definition

one of the leaders of the Populist Party

she blamed Wall Street for the farmers' problems

she said that farmers need to "raise less corn and more hell"

Term
Coxey's Army
Definition

cause: high unemployement

thousands of angry unemployed workers

 

Term
William Jennings Bryan
Definition

nominated for president of Democrats

delivered "The Cross of Gold" speech

very emotional attack (with religious overtones) on the gold standard

equated the gold standard with the rich and powerful

Term
Election of 1896
Definition

Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan for President

Republicas nominated William McKinley

Winner: William McKinley

Term
Significance of the Election if 1896
Definition

End of Populists

Urban Dominance

Republican Party

Beginning of modern politics

Term

What was the real problem for farmers?

Definition

Overproduction

  • they were producing too much
  • the supply of agricultural products exceed the demand for them
  • result > prices declined
Term

 

The National Granger Movement

 

Definition

Lobbied state legislatures > led to passage of Granger Laws

  • States > regulated rates of railroads and grain elevators
  • court case >Munn v. Illinois
Term
Munn v. Illinois
Definition
ruled that a state could regulate businesses of a public nature (such as railroads)
Term
Wabash v. Illinois
Definition

individual states could NOT regulate interstate commerce

most railroad business=interstate commerce

Term
Populist Platform
Definition
  1. nationalization of railroads, telegraph, and telephones
  2. unlimited coinage of silver
  3. a graduated income
  4. sub-treasury system
  5. Direction election of U.S. Senators by the people
  6. single term of office for president
  7. secret ballot
  8. 8 hour workday
Term
referendum
Definition
voters approved laws passed by the legislatures
Term
initiative
Definition
Voter's put a measure on a ballot without a legislatures input
Term
recall
Definition
remove an official from office before the end of his term
Term
what were some immigration restrictions?
Definition
to decrease the pool of workers and therefore raise wages
Term
Continental expansion.
Definition

obtained by war, purchases and treaties

Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Texas, California, Oregon and New Mexico

Term
Manifest Destiny
Definition
U.S. was "chosen by God" to spread its superior system throughout the continent
Term

Secretary of State William H. Seward made some attempts to expand during and after the Civil War. Elaborate.

Definition
  1. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
  2. critized for wasting money on it
  3. known as "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox"
  4. his efforts to obtain Cuba and Hawaii were unsuccessful
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