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Chapter 16 Flashcards

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Jack Johnson

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Galveston giant. the first black heavyweight champion of the world. Famous during 1880

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instant cities

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Denver and San Francisco. They grew from tiny outposts to booming metropolitan areas in less than a decade and boasted luxuries.

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settler societies

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Settlers from foreign countries who used their numbers to take control of territories.

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copper borderlands

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Region in the southwest US and northern Mexico where trade and labor networks transcended national borders

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Congressional act that barred the immigration of Chinese laborers

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William Cody buffalo bill

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Was legend and real man simultaneously

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Desert lands

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allowed for homesteading on 640-acre parcels of arid land at 25 cents per acre

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General allotment act

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act that divided Indian reservation land into smaller parcels of property

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Bill Haywood ‘big’

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Silver miner who was loved by working men and hated by the corporations

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Herbert Hoover

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combined talents in engineering with business and was president

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Mary Elizabeth Lease

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fiery leader of the populist movement who helped formed the populist party

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John Muir

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Naturalist who founded the Sierra Club in 1892.

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Gifford Pinchot

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Scientist and concerned observer

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John Wesley Powell

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one armed civil war vet. led a series of important surveys of the Colorado River System.

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Richard Henry Pratt

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Developed ideas for an Indian School system

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William Allen White

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A critic who thought women belonged in the home. Called them a haripie

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Peace Policy

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provided Indians with food and clothing in exchange for the promise of abandoning tradition

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Plenty Kill

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a Lakota Sioux. Remembered a sad scene of Indian children saying goodbye to their parents

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Social Darwinism

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Theory of Herbert Spencer applying Darwins theory of evolution to society. survival of the fittest

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