Exam 1 Flashcards
(50 cards)
In ca. 1890, Populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease warned farmers that what financial entity “owns” America?
Wall Street
What is the name of the event that took place in 1886, which involved the donation of a bomb killing seven policemen at a protest rally?
Haymarket Riot
By what moniker did people call American industrialists who amassed the largest fortunes in US History?
Robber Barons
Who was imprisoned for leading the American Railroad Union’s sympathy?
Eugene C. Debs
What two systems pushed the US into the forefront of the world in terms of manufacturing?
Industrialization and mass production
What is the name of the act passed by congress in 1887 that divided American Indian reservation into individual family homestead?
Dawes General Alottment Act
What act passed gave unclaimed lands to the federal government to sell to American settlers and resulted in the removal of American Indians’ authority over their own land?
Dawes General Allotment Act
What is the Dawes General Allotment Act?
An act passed by Congress
1. Divided American Indian Reservations into 160-acre individual family homestead
2. Gave unclaimed lands into the federal government to sell to American settlers
3. Resulted in the removal in the removal of American Indians’ authority over their own land
What year was the Haymarket Riot in? What group was involved?
- The knight of Labor.
What was the name of the slaughter of about 200 Cheyenne, women, and children in the Colorado Territory in 1864 by American leader John Chivington, despite Cheyenne Black Kettle’s attempt to negotiate peacefully?
Sand Creek Massacre
What American leader was involved in the Sandy Creek Massacre?
John Chivington
What year and where was the Sandy Creek Massacre?
- Colorado Territory.
What Indian chief was primarily involved in the Sand Creek Massacre?
Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle
What was the Sandy Creek Massacre?
Cheyanne Chief Black Kettle attempted to negotiate with the US. But the militia leader John Chivington led a slaughter of the Cheyanne tribe.
What two major industries fueled the economy in the West during the nineteenth century?
Ranching and Railroads
What U.S. State law during that 1850’s allowed white Americans to obtain American children and adults as apprentice laborers by merely bringing the desired laborers before a judge, and promising to feed, clothe, and eventually release the after a a period of service, which ranged from ten to twenty years?
Texas
Who founded Mormonism in the 1830’s?
Joseph Smith
What did Americans discover at the Black Hills in South Dakota and in what year?
Gold. 1874.
What was the popular traveling shows that featured cowboys, Indians, sharpshooters, cavalrymen, and rangers depicting the story of the Westward expansion?
Wild West Shows
U.S. troops killed about 300 men, women, and children of which American Indian group in 1863?
Dakota Sioux
What is the name of the Treaty made with American Jndians in 1851, which the US violated and then wanted to renegotiate as a result of the 1858 gold rush in California and Oregon?
Treaty of Fort Laramie
In 1881, what American Jndian leader, along with his followers, was the last American Indian to stop fighting and capitulate to life on a reservation?
Sitting Bull
Which US political party gave millions of acres amd money to railroad companies, advocated for a high protective tariff and an import tax to shield US businesses from foreign competition, amd dominated US politics from the end of the Civil War to the first several decades of the 20th century?
The Republican Party
What occurred throughout the US during the 19th and early 20th centuries as a result of dissatisfied US laborers seeking higher wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions?
Labor Strikes
