Chapter 16 Flashcards
Jack Johnson
Galveston giant. the first black heavyweight champion of the world. Famous during 1880
instant cities
Denver and San Francisco. They grew from tiny outposts to booming metropolitan areas in less than a decade and boasted luxuries.
settler societies
Settlers from foreign countries who used their numbers to take control of territories.
copper borderlands
Region in the southwest US and northern Mexico where trade and labor networks transcended national borders
Chinese Exclusion Act
Congressional act that barred the immigration of Chinese laborers
William Cody buffalo bill
Was legend and real man simultaneously
Desert lands
allowed for homesteading on 640-acre parcels of arid land at 25 cents per acre
General allotment act
act that divided Indian reservation land into smaller parcels of property
Bill Haywood ‘big’
Silver miner who was loved by working men and hated by the corporations
Herbert Hoover
combined talents in engineering with business and was president
Mary Elizabeth Lease
fiery leader of the populist movement who helped formed the populist party
John Muir
Naturalist who founded the Sierra Club in 1892.
Gifford Pinchot
Scientist and concerned observer
John Wesley Powell
one armed civil war vet. led a series of important surveys of the Colorado River System.
Richard Henry Pratt
Developed ideas for an Indian School system
William Allen White
A critic who thought women belonged in the home. Called them a haripie
Peace Policy
provided Indians with food and clothing in exchange for the promise of abandoning tradition
Plenty Kill
a Lakota Sioux. Remembered a sad scene of Indian children saying goodbye to their parents
Social Darwinism
Theory of Herbert Spencer applying Darwins theory of evolution to society. survival of the fittest
