Unit17 Flashcards
Political leader of the Sioux during the Sioux War.
Sitting Bull
Invention enabled farmers to fence their land on the treeless plains.
Barbed Wire
Military leader of the Sioux during the Sioux War.
Crazy Horse
The last major effort by the Indians to retain their lands.
Sioux War
Reckless colonel who lost his life at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
George Armstrong Custer
Tracts of land set aside for Indians.
Reservations
“Indian Napoleon,” chief of the Nez Perce Indians.
Chief Joseph
Chinese rebellion against foreigners was stopped by an international military force that included U.S. troops.
Boxer Rebellion
Puppet emperor in Mexico.
Maximilian I
The extension of power by one people or country over another for the benefit of the controlling country.
Imperialism
American commodore who negotiated a treaty with the Japanese.
Matthew Perry
Mission boards that are not supported by guaranteed funds from a denomination.
Faith Missions
Spanish ambassador who insulted President McKinley in a private letter.
Enrique Dupuy de lome
Sensationalized news reporting that became popular in the United States late in the nineteenth century.
Yellow Journalism
American commodore who defeated the Spanish navy in the Philippines.
George Dewey
War the United states fight over the independence of Cuba.
Spanish-American War
Philippine revolutionary
Emilio Aguinaldo
Provided a 160-acre land grant in the West free to anyone who improved it.
Homestead Act
The mine produced $400 million worth of ore by 1900, the ore was part silver part gold & a town sprang up near the mind.
Comstock Lode
A bloody attack on an Indian band that had already surrendered.
Wounded knee Massacre
The subject of this book was the plight of the Indians.
A century of Dishonor.
Land annexed to protect the United States against threats from the Pacific.
Hawaii
Parceled out Indian tribal lands.
Daws Act
Territory purchased from Russia in 1867.
Alaska
Settlement of three longstanding disagreements between Britain and the United States.
Treaty of washington
Agreement that opened Japan to trade with the West.
Treaty of Kanagawa
Movement intended to achieve greater unity among nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Pan Americanism
Free trade in China
Open Door policy
Anti-foreign movement in China.
Boxer Rebellion
American victory over the Spanish fleet in the Pacific.
Battle of Manila Bay
Movement meant to recruit student missionaries.
Student Volunteer Movement
Volunteer unit of men during the Spanish - American war.
Rough Rider
Battle that resulted with American forces captured Puerto Rico.
Battle of Santiago Bay
Unfenced public lands.
Open Range
Tribes such as the Cheyenne, the Comanche, and the Sioux.
Plains Indians
The site of Custer’s last stand.
Battle of little Bighorn
When Matthew went to Japan wave they nice?
No
The 1st Pan-American congress in 1889, wasit a success?
No
To the corporations that built the railroad, did they reserve 20 sum acres of land grants as reward from Fed.gov?
Yes
Great American desert a dually covered with grass?
Yes
Positive benefit of imperialism?
The growth in Christian missions.
Homestead Act in 1862 arose angry protest by farmers?
No
1st cont. railroad wars built by immigrants from China and …?
Irish and Ireland
Significance of prominary point Utah?
The trans continental railroad.
Which territory was settled by and rushes?
Oklahoma
What became the main crop of the great plains?
Wheat
Key to the culture of the plains Indians was the …?
Buffalo
American gov. Official goal during the American Indian wars?
To more the Indians to reservations.
American for in policy goals…?
1) Defend Western hemisphere against European intervention.
2) Extending US territory.
3) Creating new trade opportunities.
How did the US acquire Hawaii?
By annexation
Result from the Spanish American war, the US gained ownership of…?
Guam, the Philip and, Puerto Rico
Essay:How did the Homesteaders adapted to lack of rain…etc?
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Essay: Little Bighorn, explain why the Indian victory actually worked to the advantage army?
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