Chapter 16 Flashcards
Californios
The Hispanic people in that lived in California
Chief Joseph
The leader of the Nez Perce, he urged his followers to flee from the American Troops to reach Canada
Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882, Congress responded to the political pressure and the growing violence of racism of the chinese by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act
Coolies
An Offensive term for mainly impoverished Chinese immigrants who were low wage laborers.
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
Destroyed communal ownership of land; individual owners only of Native American land
George A. Custer
Seventh Cavalry Colonel who gets killed at Little Big Horn with his entire regiment
Geronimo
military leader of Apaches; eventually forced to surrender
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862 permitted settlers to buy plots of 160 acres for a small fee if they occupied the land they purchased for five years and improved it
Little Big Horn
The Battle of Little Bighorn in Southern in 1876 which is the most famous of all conflicts between whites and indians- The tribal warriors surprised George A. Cluster and 264 members of his regiment, surrounded them and killed every man
Mark Twain
novelist and satirist who depicted daily life in the west
Mestizos
A people of mixed race in the Spanish/Mexican caste system
Plains Indians
Diverse group of tribes and language groups: some in alliance, some in conflict
Rocky Mountain School
Art school that places emphasis on the western territories in the United States, specifically places of nature. Best known painters were Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran.
Turner Thesis
In Turner’s Thesis he argued that the end of the “frontier” also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American Life.
Wounded Knee
South Dakota massacre of Sioux Indians by Seventh Cavalry
