Chapter 18 Flashcards
Gilded Age Overview
- lassiez faire- took away regulations that interfere with business
- social-darwinism- the rich deserve to be rich because they worked hard
- “Root, Hog, or Die”- without hard work you gon die
- breaker boys- little kids who pulled slate from the coal mines
Plains Indian War (PIW)
3 APPROACHES
- concentration- to preven inter tribal warfare
- reservation- take all the Indians and put them on smaller lands
- integration- make Indians like US citizens
- all FAILED
PIW: Casinos
-on indian land, they create revenue for the Indians and allows for gambling in CA
PIW: Century of Dishonor
By Helen Hunt Jackson, highlighted the troubles of the Indian tribes
PIW: Phillip Sheridan
Destroyed grain in Virginia, “the only good Indian is a dead Indian”
- said that the only way to beat Indians was total war, must kill the buffalo
PIW: Sand Creek Masacre
Chivington kills everyone in the Indian camp and brings back 150+ scalps, the people of Denver cheer for him
PIW: Great Sioux War
1865-1867
Bozeman Trail- there were forts along the trail for miners and Red Cloud killed the people for payback
-Fetterman Massacre- Crazy Horse led Fetterman’s men to Red Cloud’s men and they killed them all and hung their organs on the trees
PIW: Battle of Little Big Horn Creek
Custer was to find out where 2500 indians left when they fled the reservation, Custer attacked with only 200 men when he wasn’t supposed to
-“Now they will never let us rest.” The US sent all they had to bring down the Indians
PIW: Red River War
Geronimo’s family was killed, caused him to want to kill every white man
PIW: Nez Percé
Joseph agreed to go to the rez, a white soldier was killed, they would be punished unless they went to Canada, they were caught at Bear Paw Mountain
PIW: Battle of Wounded Knee
“Ghost Dancers” and Wovoka
- if we dance all will be well, there will be no white men and more buffalo
PIW: Sitting Bull
Bigfoot led the dancers to the Black Hills, one indian accidentaly shot at US and all the Indians were killed
END OF RESISTANCE
Daddy Rice
“Jumpin’ Jim Crow”- dressed stereotypically and danced like a black
Afro-American League of 1877
By Thomas T. Fortune- was to pressure the government into giving the blacks what they promised them
Exodus of 1879
“exodusters”- left for Kansas for the agriculture, left the “white redeemers”
Booker T. Washington
“Up From Slavery”- what blacks should do without slavery
- accommodation- blacks will accept Jim Crow but whites have to keep an open mind
- Tuskegee Institute-to educate blacks to amke them even more accepted by whites
- first black to dine in the White House with Roosevelt
WEB Dubois
Niagara Movement- NAACP
- first to receive a pHD and from Harvard
- Talented 10th- the top 10% of any group should be funded by the rest of the 90%
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Let Mexicans stay in Mexico or stay in what is no US land because of the Rio Grande
Santa Fe Ring
Group of lawyers, politicians, and land speculators who stole millions of acres of public land, had 80% of Mexico’s landholdings in only New Mexico alone.
Las Gorras Blancas and El Alianzo Hispanio-Americano
Agrarian rebels who destroyed railroad lines and farming equipment and demanded spanish- american rights
Places Gold was found
Pikes Peak 1858, Boulder and Denver Regions 1859, Black Hills, SD 1870
-Nevada- Carson City 1858, Comstock Lode Virginia City,
Types of Mining
- placer mining- panning for gold, gravity and water were your tools
- lode mining- went to the source of gold and required heavy, expensive mining equipment
Railroads and Mining
Railroads made it easier to transport food and supplies to miners causing work to be mroe productive
Western Federation of Miners
Fought for better wages and better hours and treatment
The Long Drive
Beginning of American cowboy, cattle herders for long distances
Open-range Ranching
They buy strips of land along the river and when someone tires to use the river, they can’t so they have to pay the owners rent
Gildden
Inventor of barbed-wire
GRAIN ELEVATORS
A company would serve a community and store grain.
- it grades, weighs, packages, ships, and stores the grain
- when a farmer put grain in, the corresponding amount of money came out
