Immigrants
Those traditional peoples from northwestern Europe such as the Irish, Scottish, English, Welch, Germans, and Scandinavians who arrived in the U.S. in the middle 1800s or earlier.
Who are Old Immigrants?
In 1890, the US Army attempted to disarm 350 Sioux at a reservation in South Dakota but ultimately caused the deaths of 300 Native Americans.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
A philosophy of government employed by nations such as the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin resulting in famine, shortages, oppression, and murderous disaster, killing an estimated 100 million people.
What is Communism?
He was the primary creator of socioeconomic theory, in the 1800s, known as Communism or Marxism.
Who is Karl Marx?
Those masses of peoples from Eastern and Southern Europe, as well as many Jews escaping persecution, that came to America for opportunity in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who are New Immigrants?
A religious trend that united many American Indians in a practice that called for the renewing of society and a return to the traditional lifestyle of the Plains Indians.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
A theory applied to the evolutionary concept of natural selection in that the rich and powerful were justified in their exploitation of the poor or ‘uncivilized’ peoples of the world.
What is Social Darwinism?
The era created opportunities for women through a large demand for lower-middle class jobs that required training such as: teachers, nurses, and clerks.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
These people came to the U.S. West Coast, in large numbers, seeking refuge from famine and conflict - most-notably the Taiping Rebellion and the Opium Wars in the middle and late 1800s.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
Native American groups including the Sioux, Apache and Cheyenne that declined to stay within their reservation borders and instead attempted to continue their nomadic way of life.
What are the Warrior Tribes?
Karl Marx’s pamphlet where he sought to historically analyze social and economic systems, and offer an egalitarian alternative to the inequalities of past systems - especially capitalism.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
The worst recession in nation history up to the 1890s which increased national debate over whether or not printed notes should be backed in gold, silver, both or neither.
What is the Panic of 1893?
Those U.S. citizens who opposed massed immigration as a threat to their Protestant and Western traditions, culture, and language, as well as a threat to wages and jobs.
Who are Nativist?
Under this agreement, the U.S. government attempted to protect Sioux Indians but the Black Hills Gold Rush made it impossible to keep settlers out of the Dakota region.
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty?
An essay written by Andrew Carnegie in which he argued it was a moral obligation of individuals to pursue riches for the betterment of greater society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
A political party that advocated the use of printed money as currency rather than a gold or silver standard as had been used by the North during the Civil War.
What is the Greenback Party?
In 1882, the first law limiting immigration passed to stopping all Chinese immigration to the U.S. until WWII.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
They are an example of a tribe that assimilated into American life and adopted permanent settlements, agriculture, and private property ownership.
Who are the Crow?
Belief of many Europeans and Americans that held imperialism of superior civilizations was a natural and necessary process for the improvement of the world.
What is the White Man's Burden?
In 1887, this law attempted to facilitate Americanization by dividing tribal land into individual private allotments and placing Indian children into English speaking boarding schools.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?