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Gilded Age Overview

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  • 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
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Plains Indian War (PIW)

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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
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PIW: Casinos

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-on indian land, they create revenue for the Indians and allows for gambling in CA

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PIW: Century of Dishonor

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By Helen Hunt Jackson, highlighted the troubles of the Indian tribes

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PIW: Phillip Sheridan

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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

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PIW: Sand Creek Masacre

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Chivington kills everyone in the Indian camp and brings back 150+ scalps, the people of Denver cheer for him

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PIW: Great Sioux War

1865-1867

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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

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PIW: Battle of Little Big Horn Creek

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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

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PIW: Red River War

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Geronimo’s family was killed, caused him to want to kill every white man

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PIW: Nez Percé

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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

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PIW: Battle of Wounded Knee

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“Ghost Dancers” and Wovoka

- if we dance all will be well, there will be no white men and more buffalo

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PIW: Sitting Bull

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Bigfoot led the dancers to the Black Hills, one indian accidentaly shot at US and all the Indians were killed
END OF RESISTANCE

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Daddy Rice

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“Jumpin’ Jim Crow”- dressed stereotypically and danced like a black

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Afro-American League of 1877

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By Thomas T. Fortune- was to pressure the government into giving the blacks what they promised them

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Exodus of 1879

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“exodusters”- left for Kansas for the agriculture, left the “white redeemers”

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Booker T. Washington

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“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
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WEB Dubois

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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%
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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Let Mexicans stay in Mexico or stay in what is no US land because of the Rio Grande

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Santa Fe Ring

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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.

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Las Gorras Blancas and El Alianzo Hispanio-Americano

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Agrarian rebels who destroyed railroad lines and farming equipment and demanded spanish- american rights

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Places Gold was found

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Pikes Peak 1858, Boulder and Denver Regions 1859, Black Hills, SD 1870
-Nevada- Carson City 1858, Comstock Lode Virginia City,

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Types of Mining

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  • 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
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Railroads and Mining

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Railroads made it easier to transport food and supplies to miners causing work to be mroe productive

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Western Federation of Miners

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Fought for better wages and better hours and treatment

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The Long Drive

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Beginning of American cowboy, cattle herders for long distances

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Open-range Ranching

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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

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Gildden

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Inventor of barbed-wire

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GRAIN ELEVATORS

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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

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