Settlement of the West
Law passed in 1887 meant to encourage adoption of white norms among Indians; broke up tribal holdings into small farms for Indian families, with the remainder sold to white purchasers.
What was the Dawes Act?
After the Civil War this was made legal under the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that stipulated separate but equal facilities were legal.
What is segregation?
Served as the nation's premier federal immigration station from 1892 to 1954, processing over 12 million immigrants, primarily from Europe
What was Ellis Island?
The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is John Rockefeller?
This was a period in U.S. history marked by rapid industrialization, mass immigration, and extreme economic inequality
What was the Gilded Age?
The most famous Indian victory took place in June 1876 here, when General George A. Custer and his entire command of 250 men perished. The Lakota, Arapaho, and Cheyenne warriors, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, were defending tribal land in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
An example of vigilante violence used by Southerners usually motivated by racial hatred to intimidate African Americans.
What is lynching?
Jane Addams led the movement to create these community centers in poor, immigrant urban neighborhoods designed to bridge class divides through education, healthcare, and social service during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
What were settlement houses?
This industrial capitalist made his money in the railroad and shipping industry and was nicknamed the Commodore.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
These laws passed from 1865 to 1866 in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves.
What were Black Codes?
On December 29, 1890, soldiers opened fire on Ghost Dancers encamped in South Dakota, killing between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly women and children.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee or the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
The policy of protecting the interests of established inhabitants against those of immigrants
What is nativism?
Industrial capitalists earned this name for their unscrupulous and immoral business practices.
What is a robber baron?
This prohibited the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race. It was bitterly opposed by the Democratic Party but was ratified in 1870.
What was the 15th Amendment?
This was the first off-reservation federal boarding school, designed to forcibly assimilate over 7,800 Native American children from 140+ tribes into white culture; was founded in 1879
What was the Carlisle Indian School?
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is sharecropping?
This event unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen countries to form a multi-ethnic society on America's fringe
What was the California Gold Rush?
This ideology applied Darwin’s biological theories to justify laissez-faire capitalism, racism, imperialism, and the belief that wealthy, powerful groups were biologically superior, while the poor were "unfit".
What is Social Darwinism?
This was an informal political deal in the United States that settled the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election, in which Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner and federal troops were removed from the South to signal the end of Reconstruction.
What was the Bargain or Compromise of 1877?
The last group of Native Americans that had to be forcibly removed from US territory.
Who are the Plains Indians?
This newspaper editor argued that the "New South" had nothing to apologize for concerning the Civil War.
Who is Henry Grady?
This was the first major U.S. federal law to restrict immigration based on race and class and was passed in 1882
What was the Chinese-Exclusion Act?
An industrial capitalist who got his start in railroads and then began a career of buying and selling other companies.
Who is JP Morgan?
Post–Civil War Democratic leaders who supposedly saved the South from Yankee domination and preserved the primarily rural economy.
Who were the Redeemers?