Names
Chief of the Sioux Nation;led the Ghost Dance of 1890 which spelled the end of the Indian Wars.
Sitting Bull
a time of concentrated wealth.. in the hands of a few wealthy industrialists.
The Gilded Age
Place where the Lewis and Clark Expedition ended
Oregon Country
Law that granted land to settlers
Homestead Act
Government policy designed to subjugate Indians by requiring them to speak English, wear non-traditional clothes and attend English public schools.
Assimiliation.
Led the Apaches until he was subdued by the US Army, and eventually imprisoned in the Florida Everglades until his death in 1909.
Geronimo
A time of Rebuilding in America, after the end of the Civil War-- 1865-1876.
Reconstruction.
"Sewards Folly"
Alaska
Law that formally ended Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act of 1877
Immigrant groups that arrived in America in the late 19th century and aided in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, target of racism by whites.
Chinese Immigrants.
US President who led the initial effort to reform Civil service
President Chester Alan Arthur
U.S. invasion of Spanish-controlled Cuba in 1898
Spanish-American War
Movement to expel foreigners in China
Boxer Rebellion
Designed so that all nations would have free trade with China.
Open Door Policy
The Wealthiest American in US History. By 1900, this one man owned more than 1% of the entire nations wealth.
John D. Rockefeller
Visited Japan in the late Nineteenth Century to establish commerce
Commodore Matthew Perry
A time of war between the Indian Nations of the West and the US military lasting from 1865-1890
Indian Wars
One of the largest silver strikes in the West
Comstock Lode
created greater unity and cooperation in the Western world.
Pan- Americanism
Idea that the US had the right to control the happenings in the Western hemisphere; as well as use its influence to keep European influence out of the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Army General who was defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
General Georg Armstrong Custer
A time of Westward migration, for both opportunity and profit
Westward Migration
Location of the first real gold strike in the U.S.
California
Fighting in Mexico that led to the exaction of Emperor Maximillian.
Mexican Civil War (1860's).
small military group.. led by Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt; which helped to bring about the eventual defeat of the Spanish in Cuba in 1898.
The "Rough Riders