study chapter 16,17,18 Flashcards
Result of the Sand Creek Massacre where peaceful natives were slaughtered by colorado militiamen
investigations concluded Native Americans had been murdered in cold blood
Americanize Natives to become farmers
Dawes severality act
Late 1800 civil rights affect legal protections in 13th and 14th amendments
opened the door to state laws requiring “separate but equal” facilities
Name for those making their exodus from the South in search of a place devoid of racism and poverty
Exodusters
Civil rights leader argued the Black response to racial prejudice under Jim Crow should be one of “ceaseless agitation”?
W.E.B. Du Bois
system of over-planting tobacco and cotton that led to erosion of farmland
crop-lien system
event where people intimidated voters, stuffed ballot boxes, & drove out African American population
Wilmington Insurrection
Cause of the Indian Wars in 1860-1870s
Commitments repeatedly violated by private citizens, companies, and army
Why did American economic growth and industrial development explode in the late 1800s?
innovations in transportation and communication, and increase immigration
President Grover Cleveland’s response to Pullman Strike
Send federal troops to keep trains running
Andrew Carnegie industry
Steel
group of separate national unions organized by delegates from craft unions trying to secure economic gains
American Federation of Labor
J.P Morgan on how he became successful and powerful
helped competing corporations merge, creating trusts
How did the Carnegie Steel Company rise to become the largest industrial company in the world by 1900?
employed the newly developed bessemer converter
What was the goal of the new generation of business leaders who came to prominence during the Gilded Age?
to generate profits and dominate entire industries
What economic doctrine guided Congress and presidents in the Gilded Age to oppose government regulation of business?
Laissez-faire
It disenfranchised African American voters through several means, including a poll tax and a literacy test
Mississippi plan
mining discovery of gold and silver in Nevada that was the most profitable at that point
Comstock Lode
What was the main force drawing new immigrants to big U.S. cities in the late 1800s?
rapidly growing large industries
What political party emerged to champion the interests of rural Americans in the South and West?
the people’s party
