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Topics 6.2-6.5 Flashcards

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Transcontinental railroad

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A continuous rail line constructed between Nebraska and California, connecting the east and west coast to allow for easy travel

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Great Plains

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A huge, dry region in the center of North America, where Natives primarily lived

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Great American Desert

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The term applied to the land west of the Missouri River and east of the Rocky Mountains

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100th Meridian

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An imaginary line running from the Dakotas to Texas that separated the wet East from the dry East

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Vaqueros

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Skilled riders who herded cattle on ranches in Mexico, California, and the Southwest

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Cattle drives

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The forced migration of massive numbers of cattle to the railroads, where they could be shipped to the East

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Homestead Act of 1862

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A federal law promoting westward expansion by alloting 160 acres of free public land to settlers

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Dry farming

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A method used by farmers in the Plains to conserve moisture by reducing runoff and evaporation, thereby increasing soil absorption and retention of moisture

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Deflation

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An increase in the value of money in relation to avaliable goods, causing prices to fall

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Middlemen

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In trading systems, those who operate between the original producer of goods and the retail merchants who sell to consumers

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National Grange Movement

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A group of agarian organizations that worked to increase the political and economic power of farmers

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Granger laws

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Legislation to regulate rising fare prices of railroad and grain elevator companies after the Civil War

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Munn v. Illinois (1877)

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Upheld the Granger laws, allowing states to regulate certain businesses within their borders

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Ocala Platform

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Supported direct election of senators, lowering tariff rates, a gradual income tax, and a new banking system regulated by the federal government

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“The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1883)

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A book published by Frederick Jackson Turner that claimed the frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and ending prior customs of the 19th century

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Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

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  • Colonel Custer marched his men deep into Sioux Territory to stop an uprising due to his claim to gold in the Black Hills
  • 2500 Sioux warriors stopped and killed Custer and his army
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Ghost Dance Movement

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The last effort of Native Americans to resist US encroachment onto their lands, displayed through a religious movement

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Assimilationists

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Americans motivated to help Natives adapt into American society by giving them a formal education and converting them to Christianity

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Author of “A Century of Dishonor” exposing the US government’s many broken promises to the Natives

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Dawes Act of 1887

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Divided communal tribal land into lots to be owned by individual Natives, subject to taxation once owned

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Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

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Decreased government control over Native affairs

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Santa Fe Trail

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A trail that extands from Missouri to New Mexico that was an important route for settlers moving west

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Forest Reserve Act of 1891

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Intended to protect some 172 million acres of timberland from deforestation

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Forest Management Act of 1897

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Gave the president the power to establish forest reserves to protect watersheds against lumbering, overgrazing, and forest fires

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Conservationists

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Advocates of preserving natural resources

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Preservationists

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Advocates of protecting nature from humans

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Sierra Club

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An organization founded in 1892 dedicated to the enjoyment and preservation of mountains and wilderness environments

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New South

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The shift in the South from an agarian society to an industrialized economy after the Civil War

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Henry Grady

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The editor of the Atlanta Constitution and a strong proponent of an industrialized South

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Tenant farmers

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Farmers who rented land and shared a portion of the crop with the landowner

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George Washington Carver

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Ex-slave who founded, taught, and did research at the Tuskegee Institute

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White supremacists

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People who believed in the supremacy of the white race

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Civil Rights Cases of 1883

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5 cases involving the Civil Rights Act of 1875 that allowed states to permit private discrimination by looking the other way

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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Permitted separate but equal facilities and legal segregation of the races

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Jim Crow laws

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Any state or local law that enforced racial segregation

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Literacy tests

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A test given as a precondition for voting, often to prevent blacks from voting

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Poll taxes

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A required fee before voting

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Grandfather clause

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People could vote if their ancestor voted before 1867, allowing ineligible voters to vote

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Lynch mobs

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Killings of blacks by white mobs for supposed crimes or for angering whites

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Ida B. Wells

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Black journalist who advocated against lynching

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International Migration Society

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A group that advocated for moving blacks back to Africa

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Atlanta Compromise

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Black and white southerners shared the responsibility of making their region prosper

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Transatlantic cable

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An undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communication, connecting continents

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Telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell’s invention that revolutionized instant communication for businesses and people

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Kodak camera

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Allowed people to take pictures and freeze a moment in time

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Thomas Edison

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Inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb in Menlo Park, NJ

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Subways

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A transportation system that could transport people to urban residences even farther from the city’s commercial center

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Skyscraper

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Tall, steel-framed buildings that originated in Chicago and dominated cities

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