Period 6

Question 1

Sand creek massacre

Answer 1

U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory,[4] killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Native Americans,

Question 2

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Answer 2

Us treaty w natives guaranteeing the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills,

Question 3

Edmunds-tucker act

Answer 3

Act against Latter Day Saints restricting polygamy

Question 4

Lynching

Answer 4

A punishment by a informal group involving hanging.

Question 5

homestead act 1862

Answer 5

Granted 160 per family as long as they lived on it

Question 6

morrill act 1862

Answer 6

An act donating land for use as colleges and high education

Question 7

forest management act of 1897

Answer 7

provided the main statutory basis for the management of forest reserves in the United States,

Question 8

omaha act of 1882

Answer 8

The Omaha Tribe also requested the United States’ assistance and permission to sell land to fund tribal functions. The Act of August 7, 1882 (“the 1882 Act”) was the result of such a request.

Question 9

dawes severalty act

Answer 9

The act split up reservations held communally by Native American tribes into smaller units and distributed these units to individuals within the tribe.

Question 10

Vertical integration

Answer 10

A single company owns and controls the entire process from raw materials to the maufacture and sale of the finished product. Andrew Carnegie.

Question 11

Gospel of wealth

Answer 11

Carnegie justified monopolies through social Darwinism and argued that the wealthy had a God-given responsibility to carry out projects of civil philanthropy for the benefit of society

Question 12

Horizontal combination

Answer 12

The combining of many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation

Question 13

chinese exclusion act

Answer 13

Banned all Chinese immigrants from entering the us

Question 14

Knights of labor

Answer 14

largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly.

Question 15

american federation of labor

Answer 15

was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions

Question 16

tenement

Answer 16

a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. Exceptionally small

Question 17

gilded age

Answer 17

time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings

Question 18

women’s educational and industrial union

Answer 18

offered a multitude of classes to Boston’s wage-earning women, ranging from A TON OF THINGS [even upholstering, cabinetmaking, and carpentry]

Question 19

interstate commerce commission

Answer 19

which it charged with monitoring railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations. The Act was the first federal law to regulate private industry in the United States.

Question 20

pendleton act

Answer 20

established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation

Question 21

populist movement

Answer 21

agrarian-populist political party in the United States. For a few years, 1892–96, it played a major role as a left-wing force in American politics.

Question 22

grange movement

Answer 22

coalition of U.S. farmers, particularly in the Middle West, that fought monopolistic grain transport practices

Question 23

farmers alliance

Answer 23

organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875.

Question 24

great uprising

Answer 24

Great Railroad strike This strike finally ended some 45 days later, after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops

Question 25

National American Women’s suffrage association

Answer 25

1890 to work for women’s suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations

Question 26

free silver

Answer 26

Economic policy issue, Its advocates were in favor of an expansionary monetary policy featuring the unlimited coinage of silver into money on demand, as opposed to strict adherence to the more carefully fixed money supply implicit in the gold

Question 27

sherman silver purchase act

Answer 27

The measure did not authorize the free and unlimited coinage of silver that the Free Silver supporters wanted; however, it increased the amount of silver the government was required to purchase on a recurrent monthly basis to 4.5 million ounces.[2] The Sherman Silver Purchase Act had been pa

Question 28

nativism

Answer 28

the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Question 29

jim crow laws

Answer 29

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Question 30

segregation

Answer 30

separation of humans into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

Question 31

plessy v ferguson

Answer 31

U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions

Question 32

grandfather clause

Answer 32

a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices.

Question 33

poll tax

Answer 33

a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.

Question 34

women’s christian temperance union

Answer 34

active temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that “linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity.”