Additional Terms Pt 2

Question 1

Dawes (General Allotment) Act

Answer 1

Required Indians to register for household allotments
- reducted Native land by 2/3rds
- undermined Native soverignity and disruption to Native life
- splintered Native American reservations into individual family homesteads

Question 2

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 2

**enforced segreation from rail coaches, schools, theaters, public life **
- used literacy tests and poll taxes to restrict
- characterized by lots of lynchings

Question 3

Lost Cause

Answer 3

Emerged as a revisionist pro-South history of Civil war, championing a New South industiral expansion
revisionist history of the civil war that claims the war was not about slavery, but about states’ right

Question 4

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Muscular Christianity

Answer 4

• caused by anxiety towards influences in industriliazed, urbanization, and power of women
• religious movement that emerged in response to anxeities about the feminization of American society

Question 5

Gunboat/Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 5

Gunboat: idea of a “manly duty” to police “inferior/uncivilized” people to protect American interest
Dollar: allowed less costly form of control than military occupation, aovodied troubles of military occupation

Question 6

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Answer 6

Killed mainly women and girls, shocking people in action and reformation against the inequalities of American society
- caused because doors of factories were shut to prevent workers from unauthorizzed breaks
- many died due to unsafe working conditions

Question 7

Jane Addams

Answer 7

Sociologist, activist, and administrator
- powerful force for growing reform movements, branching from childcare, cultural events, political advocy, and anti-war activism
- Creates her own settlement house (Hull House, influential home in Chicago, cooperation rather than confrontation between rich and poor)
- All of the above, spoke out against militariams, Hull House

Question 8

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 8

First effort to regulate monopolies to preserve “fair competition”
- not all monopolies were illegal, only those that “unreasonably” stifiled free trade

Question 9

John Muir

Answer 9

Preservation: John Muir advocated Preservation rather than conservation setting aside land for aesthetic and spiritual value

Question 10

Gifford Pinchot

Answer 10

Conservation: Pinchot led charge for conservation, “To take every part of the land and its resources and put it to that use in which it will serve the most people”