Unit 1
This was the plan created by Union General Winfield Scott to cut the Confederacy off from supplies, (suffocating them) with naval blockades and seizing control of the Missisippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
These animals were a major factor in the survival and culture of the Plains Native Americans. they were used for food, shelter, and clothing. When whites began to the hunt these animals for profit it forced the natives to relocate.
What is the American Bison/Buffalo?
This was the 19th-century belief that not only was Westward Expansion justified and inevitable, it was God's plan for Americans to take the land.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is a term that is used related to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. We usually use it to describe rural communities centered around farming.
What is Agrarian?
William Jennings Bryan ran for president under this political party that represented the advocacy of farmers, or supporting their interests, but also encompassed proposals for reform that resonated with others.
What is the Populist Party?
This presidential announcement freed all slaves in southern states, it laid the groundwork for the 13th amendment which made slavery illegal in the United States. .
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Via the Indian Appropriations Act, this system was put into place where Native Americans were moved onto farmland and not allowed to leave without permission.
What is the Reservation System?
This was the first rail line to connect the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, making it easier to settle the American West and to transport goods back east.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This term is used to describe the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. We talk about america undergoing this kind of transformation and the culture moves more towards cities and factory work.
What is industrialization?
This is a coalition of US farmers, particularly in the Middle West that proposed legislation (laws) that would require the government to regulate the railroad companies.
What is the Granger Movement?
In our lessons we discussed the failed compromises on slavery, as new states were added to the country. These are the names of two out of the three (2 of them are formatted"The compromise of BLANK, The other is the Blank Blank Act)
What are the Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, and The Kansas Nebraska Act?
This Government Act divided Native Land into small plots to be owned by individual Native Americans, aiming to assimilate them into mainstream, or dominant, American culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
This Government Act promised inexpensive land in the West to settlers, in exchange for 6 months of improvements.
What is the Homestead Act?
We use this term to describe the idea that when there’s only a few of something, its price is high.
What is scarcity?
A win for farmers! This was the first law that regulated railroads and other companies that did business across the country to ensure their rates were fair and reasonable.
What is the interstate commerce act.
This famous escaped slave became a leading voice for abolition and published the newspaper "The North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglas?
In an attempt to assimilate Native Americans into U.S. Culture, White Settlers created these, where Native children were taught to live by the rules of white Americans, such as speaking English and wearing American clothing.
What are American Boarding Schools?
This is one of the number of Push or Pull Factors that drove westward expansion.
What is (I'll look around the room, don't want to write this much)?
This is a monetary policy where the value of a dollar was backed by a fixed amount of gold.
What is the Gold Standard?
These cooperative organizations responded to the economic challenges of farmers by supporting cooperative purchasing to reduce costs and improve crop prices.
What are Farmers Alliances?
This Southern Democrat and former Tennessee Senator was made Vice President during the Civil War, he became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Who is Andrew Johnson?
In 1864, the Cheyenne and Arapaho were massacred by soldiers after what they perceived to be successful peace talks over reservation border disputes. After the Government refused to send U.S. Troops, a group of volunteers ambushed and killed around 230 people, composed mostly of women, children, and the elderly in the territory of Colorado.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
This Government Act used federal land grants to establish public colleges, emphasizing agriculture and mechanic arts, helping to support the farming the U.S. Government was hoping would explode in the west.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
This was a monetary policy where the value of a dollar was limited by a fixed amount of gold AND silver, meaning there will be more money circulating in the economy!.
What is bimetallism?
This is a famous speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan, advocating for inflation and adoption of silver into the federal reserve in an attempt to help farmers burdened with debt.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?