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One means of inhibiting black voters without explicitly violating the 15th amendment
poll tax, literacy test
name whites gave to the apocalyptic religious movement begun by Wovoka
Ghost dance religion
The cattle industry began after the Civil War, with large herds of cattle in this southern state
Texas
Key economic issue that divided Democrats and Whigs in the 1830s
The National Bank
The first attempt by the Radicals to control the reconstruction plan; Lincoln pocket vetoed it
Wade-Davis Bill
the destruction of what by whites destroyed the ability of Native Americans on the Great Plains to resist white settlement
buffalo
policy the US government created to give away farmland in the West
Homestead Act
Economic crisis that killed Van Buren’s re-election
Panic of 1837
System by which people farm on someone else's land, in exchange for a portion of the crop
crop-lien system or sharecropping
particularly violent encounter between whites and Native Americans in Southeastern Colorado during the Civil War
Sand Creek Massacre
Painter and sculptor whose works came to represent the romance of the west
Frederic Remington
One Marshall Court case that expanded the power of the supreme court or the federal government
McCulloch, Marshall, Gibbons, Dartmouth, and others
DD 1866 Supreme court case that limited Congress’ power to impose Reconstruction Laws on the South; Congress responded by threatening to permanently weaken the supreme court.
Ex Parte Milligan
Law that eliminated tribal ownership of land and instead intended to give it to individual Native Americans
Dawes severalty act
DD One book or form of entertainment show that helped romanticize the life of the cowboy
The Virginian, buffalo bill cody, Cody’s wild west show, The Winning of the West, Turner’s Frontier thesis
Term for expanding transportation, growing banking system, and the beginnings of industrial growth in the 1820s and 1830s
The Market Revolution
Agency established in 1865 to help protect and preserve order for blacks in the south
Freedmen's bureau
Term that refers to the Federal government’s policy, begun in 1851, of creating large reservations for each Native American nation on the Great Plains
concentration policy
Author of the Significance of the Frontier in American History , whose ideas have dominated the history of the West for more than a century
Frederick Jackson Turner
Jackson’s policy of requiring gold or silver money to buy government owned land
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