Ch. 17 Vocab Flash Cards

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Great Plains

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Where the injuns lived. Midwestern US.

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"Crowd Nobody"

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Movement that encouraged people who lived in urban areas to move to the uninhabited west.

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Indian Country

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Where them injuns lived. See also: Great plains.

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Chivington Massacre

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John Chivington's attack on Chief Black Kettle. He slaughtered men, women, and children, attacking when his opponents were asleep.

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Red Cloud

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A Sioux chief who was one of the first to succumb to the will of the government and live on a reservation.

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Fetterman Massacre

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William Fetterman led a command to attack Red Cloud, and Red Cloud ambushed his soldiers and killed them all.

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Buffalo Soldiers

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A group of black soldiers who were famed for their valor in battle, even though they suffered the same prejudices as other blacks

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Red River War

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US Army launched a campaign to get rid of the Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapahos, and move them to reservations. "Kill the buffalo, kill the indians".

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Sitting Bull

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Medicine Man turned Sioux chief. One of the chiefs who won the battle of Little Big Horn. Killed at Wounded Knee.

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Crazy Horse

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Sioux Chief. One of the chiefs who won the battle of Little Big Horn. Killed resisting being moved to reservation.

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George Armstrong Custer

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An American general who led an attack on the Indians at Little Big Horn. FAILURE ---> Death.

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7th Cavalry

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Soldiers who fought bravely at Little Big Horn, several earning the Medal of Honor.

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Nez Perce Tribe

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Indians who rebelled against the government. Led by Chief Joseph. Died of disease.

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Chief Joseph

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The chief of the Nez Perce tribe. Led his people in running away from the government for 75 days.

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Wovoka

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An indian prophet who thought the end of the white men was imminent.

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Ghost Dance

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A set of dances and rights that the indians thought would bring about the death of the white man.

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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When the army heard about the ghost dances, they tried to stop it, but after the indians resisted, they killed many, including Sitting Bull

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Assimilation

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As in, of assimilation of indians into civilized culture.

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Court of Indian Offenses

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A court system specifically devoted to indians, but one that failed miserably in the non-prejudice category.

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Dawes Severalty Act

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Divided tribal lands into plots so individuals could purchase them. An effort to force indians to become civilized.

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Extermination of the Buffalo

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"Kill a buffalo, kill an indian"

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Buffalo Bill Cody

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The mastermind of the Wild West show, which made a farce of indian life. Sitting Bull himself participated in it.

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Gold Rush of 1849

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THE gold rush, led to thousands moving into California and surrounding areas.

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Overland Trail

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Similar to the Oregon trail, a trail that people followed if they wanted gold.

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Homestead Act of 1862

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160 acres for $10 if you live and work on it for five years.

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Timber Culture Act 1873

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Added on to homestead act, promised more land if the buyer planted trees.

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Timber and Stone Act of 1878

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Anybody in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington could buy forest land for $2.50 an acre

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National Reclamation Act

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Money from sale of public lands goes to irrigate arid desert land.

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Hydraulic Society

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Rich in crops, but always thirstier for more. (Refers to amount of irrigation an area gets)

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Romualdo Pacheco

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Hispanic governor of California/congressman

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Las Gorras Blancas

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Secret organization of Spanish Americans.

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Instant Cities

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Cities that arose because of interest in mining.

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Placer Mining

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A mining technique that uses a shovel, pan, and a good claim

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Comstock Lode

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A place rich in silver and gold

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Did not let Chinese into america for five years

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Foreign Miner's Tax

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Along the same lines as the exclusion act, prevented foreigners from taking too much American gold

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Vaqueros

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Spanish cowboys

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Wyoming Stock Grower's Association

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Involved with the death of the cattle in the winter of 1866

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Exodusters

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Black farmers who moved to the west for a new beginning

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Dry farming

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Loosening up the soil to slow down evaporation, gives plants more water

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National Grange

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Founded by Oliver H. Kelley, banned members' involvement in politics, a kind of social club. They often ignored the rules.

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Bonanza Farms

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Farms that were made easier by the new inventions of farming tools.

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Turner Thesis

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The existence of free land is the explanation of the growth of America.

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Progressivism

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A collective mentality focused on worrying about the state of affairs in America.

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RE Olds

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A car manufacturer who wasn't as good as Henry Ford-- Oldsmobiles?

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Model T

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Economy car that Henry Ford made to sell to the masses

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Tin Lizzie

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Nickname of Model T

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United Fruit

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Exploitative empire of plantations

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General Electric

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First industrial research lab

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

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Economic theorist

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Principles of Scientific Management

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Basis of modern managerial technique

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Triangle Shirtwaist Co.

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A place that burned down and killed many female workers

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WTUL

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Women's Trade Union League

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RFD

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Rural free delivery--delivered mail to farmer's doors

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Rockefeller Sanitary Comission

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Began a sanitation campaign in NY

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Newlands Act

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Funded irrigation

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David Graham Phillips

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journalist/novelist

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Sheppard Towner Act

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Gave rights to pregnant women in the workplace

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Margaret Sanger

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Fought for birth control for women

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Niagara Movement

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equality for blacks.

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NAACP

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national association for the advancement of colored people, helped to strive for equality for blacks

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Guinn v. US

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Outlawed the grandfather clause

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Buchanon V. Worley

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Banned a law requiring residential segregation.

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Padroni

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Italian job agent

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Leonidas Skliris

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Czar of the Greeks, a greek padroni

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Birds of Passage

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Immigrants who worked for the work season, and then took the money home during the off season

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Americanization

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The process of immigrants learning the ways of American culture.

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Coyotes

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Mexican job agents

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Barrios

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All-Mexican neighborhoods

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Samuel Gompers

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Head of the AFL

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IWW

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A union that emphasized socialist values

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Bill Haywood

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Founder of IWW

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5 Dollar Day

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Henry Ford's idea to make workers come to work for him

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Amoskeag

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Similar to Pullman, a self-sufficient factory town.

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Irving Berlin

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A patriotic American composer

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DW Griffith

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Pioneered film directing, made "Birth of a Nation"

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ASCAP

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Performing rights/copyrights agency.

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Ashcan School

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Based in realism.