Apush Chapter 25-26

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Jane Addams and Hull House

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Jane Addams after college aquired Hull mansion in Chicago in 1889. This became the most prominent settlement house. Hull house offered instruction in English counseling to help new-comers cope with American big-city life, child care services and cultural activities

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Booker T. Washington

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An ex-slave who saved his money to buy himself an education. He believed that blacks must first gain economic equality before they gain social equality. He was President of the Tuskegee Institute and he was a part of the Atlanta Compromise. Washington believed that blacks should be taught useful skills so that whites would see them as useful.

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W.E.B. DuBois

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First black man to recieve a phd from harvard. Demanded complete equality for blacks social as well as economic and helped found the NAACP

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Horatio Alger

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a popular writer of the Post-Civil War time period. Alger was a Puritan New Englander who wrote more than a hundred volumes of juvenile fiction during his career; the famous "rags to riches" theme.

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Morrill Act (1862)

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Provided for generous land grants of public lands to states for support of education. Most of these colleges became state universities.

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Yellow Journalism

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A scandal-mongering practice of journalism that emerged in New York during the Gilded Age out of circulation bettles between Josephs Pulitzer New York World and William Randolph Hearst New York Journal.

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Comstock Law

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made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail, including contraceptive devices and information. Proposed by Anthony Comstock who made it his life long mission to kill the immoral ideas of man

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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She was a leader of the women's suffrage movement. She was not successful in accomplishing her goal, but she did spark a movement that would eventually lead to women's right to vote. She de-emphasized the arguement that women deserved the vote as a matter of right, but instead they should get the vote because of how the vote could benefit their life as a homemaker

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Florence Kelley

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A lifelong battler for the welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers. Served as a general secretary of the National Consumers League. Led the women of Hull House into a successful lobby in 1893 for an Illinois antisweatshop law that protected women workers and prohibited child labor. A leader in women's activism and social reform.

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Sitting Bull

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One of the leaders of the Sioux tribe. He was a medicine man " as wily as he was influential." He became a prominent Indian leader during the Sioux Was from 1876-1877.( The war was touched off when a group of miners rushed into the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1875.) The well-armed warriors at first proved to be a superior force. During Custer's Last Stand in 1876, Sitting Bull was " making medicine" while another Indian, Crazy Horse, led the Sioux. When more whites arrived at the Battle of Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull and the other Sioux we forced into Canada.

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George A. Custer

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Famed General in the Civil War that was demoted to cornal and because an indian hunter. Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry in an attack on the Cheyenne encampment of Black Kettle—the Battle of Washita River on November 27, 1868. Custer reported killing 103 warriors; estimates by the Cheyenne of their casualties were substantially lower (11 warriors plus 19 women and children)

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Chief Joseph

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He was chief of the Nez Perce Indians of Idaho. People wanting gold trespassed on their beaver river. To avoid war, and save his people Chief Joseph tried retreating to Canada with his people. They were cornered 30 miles from safety and he surrendered in 1877.

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Geronimo

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Mexican troops killed his other and wife and three of his childre, this initiated his lifelong hatred of Mexicans. Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to U.S. authorities after a lengthy pursuit.

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881)

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History",

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Eugene V. Debs

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Helped organize the America Railway Union of about 150,000 members. This union led the Pullman strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company.

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Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)

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A battle between the U.S Army and the Dakota Sioux in which several hundred Native Americans and 29 U.S soldiers died. tensions erupted violently over two major issues: the Sioux practice of the "Ghost Dance" which the U.s goverment had outlawed and the dispute over whether Sioux reservation land would be broken up because of the Dawes Act

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Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

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An act that broke up Indian reservation and distributed land to individual households. Left over land was sold for money to fund U.S government efforts to "civilize" Native American

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Buffalo Soldiers

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One-fifth of all the U.S armies personnel on the frontier were Afreican Americans who the natives dubbed "Buffalo Soldiers"

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Homestead Act (1862)

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A feral law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for five years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it.Helped people move forward but people complained that the land was infertaile

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Granger Laws

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The Granger laws were a series of laws passed in western states of the United States after the American Civil War to regulate grain elevator, railroad freight rates and to address long- and short-haul discrimination.

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Farmers Alliance

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Founded in texas in the 1870s. Farmers came together to socialize and to break the strong hoel dthe railroads had over them . Was weakened by ingoring the plight of landless tenants

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Pullman Strike (1894)

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A strike by railroad workers upset by drastic wage cuts. The strike was led by socialist Eugine Debs but not supported by the American Federation of LAbor. President Clevland intervened and federal troops forced an end to the strike

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Cross of Gold Speech

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Speech by William Jennings Bryan. The speech was about the gold standard and how they needed inflation through the unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 ounces of silver to 1 of gold.

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Gold Standard Act (1900)

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An act that guaranteed that paper currency would bee redeemed freely in gold putting an end to the already dying "free silver" campaign