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Unit 6 Vocab Flashcards

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Homestead Act

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160 acres to anyone to settle and develop it. Government encouraged westward migration

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Morrill Land Grant Act

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money from public lands given to states to form colleges

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Reservation System

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Gov assign plain tribes large land, they refused to cooperate leading to Indian Wars

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Chief Joseph

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Lead Nez Perce. “I will fight No More Forever” mourned young indian men killed in battle

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A Century of Dishonour

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Helen Hunt Jackson wrote about experiences of Native Americans, attempt to change government policy

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Dawes Severalty Act

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Indian land divided into 160 acres. attempt to assimilate Natives

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Assimilation of Native Americans

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Formal education, job training, and conversion to Christianity. boarding schools

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Ghost Dance Movement

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Reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and bring peace, prosperity, and unity. believed it would return propserity

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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Gunned 200 Indians. End of Indian Wars

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Transcontinental Railroad

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San Francisco to the east. Central Chinese West. Union African Irish East

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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1882 passed by congress Chester A Arthur for 10 years

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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Frontier Thesis: Provided a place for homeless, solved special problems, growth of African democracy

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Monopolies

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exclusive control in a specific market. Robber Barons, John R

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John D Rockefeller

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Standard Oil Company 90% of oil and used horizontal combination

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Andrew Carnegie

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Steel king, vertical integration, control every phase. Improve efficiency by making supplies more reliable and eliminate middleman

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Gospel of Wealth

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Andrew Carnegie. Great Wealth brought responsibility

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Social Darwinism

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Poor are poor because not fit to survive

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Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

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farmers sought to forbid price discrimination and other monopolistic practice

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Gov oppose monopolies. ineffective replaced by Clayton Antitrust act

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Knights of Labor

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1869 largest labor organization. skilled and unskilled, equal pay for women and african american. 8 hr

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American Federation of Labor

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1886 Samuel Gompers. shorter work days, better pay, safer working conditions.

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Tenement Housing

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poorly built and overcrowded

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Gilded Age

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Mark Twain. America is amazing and rich but really it isn’t

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William Tweed

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William Weed Tally Hall. Tammany Hall. Lead corrupt politicians. Ensure loyalty of voters through jobs

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Thomas Nast

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Political cartoonist. corruption of tweed ring

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Whiskey Ring

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1875, diversion of tax revenues among gov, politicians, whiskey distillers, distributors.

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Credit Mobilier Scandal

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Union Pacific hired themselves at inflated prices to build railroad. Gov paid to stay quiet

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Charles Guiteau

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Shot and Killed James Garfield 1881. Arthur becomes prezzz

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Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

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Restricts the spoils system, establish a merit system

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Grange/Farmers Alliance

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1867 by Oliver kelly, support West farmers. founding populist party

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Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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Frances Willard to oppose alcohol consumption

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National Women’s Suffrage Association

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Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1869. 19th amendment secure voting rights for women

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Populist Party (People’s Party)

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  1. Farmers Alliance and low wage workers. Wanted larger role of government in society, progressive income tax, direct methods of democracy
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William Jennings Bryan

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Populists and Democrats supported. unlimited coinage of silver “cross of gold” speech. Lost

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Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

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segregated railroad cars. Supremem court ruled “separate but equal”

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