APUSH - Reconstruction to the end of the 19th Century
Set to review for Adler's test on Reconstruction through the end of the 19th Century!
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- Dawes
- This act was supposed to help Native Americans by making them better "farming" Americans just when farming was rapidly declining
- Pendleton
- _____ Civil Service Act passed due to Garfield's shooting; merit awarded over party loyalty in government jobs on most levels
- Scandinavian
- These Europeans filled the Dakota territory during the wet cycle
- John Wanamaker
- Started the first department store
- Jane Addams
- Associated with the Hull (settlement) House in Chicago
- Geronimo
- The last of the great chiefs; surrenders and is sent to Florida in 1886
- Tenure of Office
- Act that was used by Congress to weaken the executive branch
- Electricity
- Major innovation that dominated the progress of the 2nd Industrial Revolution
- Andrew Carnegie
- Major advocate of the Gospel of Wealth
- Wounded Knee
- Massacre of Indians
- Joseph Glidden
- Invented barbed wire
- Leland Stanford
- Best known of the Big Four
- Munn
- ________ v. Illinois; temporary victory for the Grange
- Comstock
- Major lode here led to massive migration to Nevada (temporarily) and ended the Panic of 1857
- Deflation
- The Great ___________ was caused by the overspeculation of railroad stock and labor strikes
- George Pullman
- Major strike started at his workers' factory led by Eugene V. Debs
- Black Hills
- Sacred burial grounds of the Sioux were mined in the 1870s; located in Dakota territory
- Segregation
- Hall v. DeCuir - Supreme Court allows ___________
- Trust
- A group of corporations that combine their board of directors for the purpose of collusion
- Credit Mobilier
- The biggest scandal of the Gilded Age
- Silver
- William Jennings Bryan was trying to get the government to mint more of this to help the Populists pay their debts
- Bozeman Trail
- Runs through Montana and through sacred Teton Sioux territory
- Exodusters
- Great movement of freedmen out of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri to Kansas
- Standard
- ________ Gauge - The standard width of railroad tracks so certain companies wouldn't hold monopoly over entire tracks of railway
- Thorstein Veblen
- Coined the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe how the nouveau riche flaunted their money
- Coxey
- _______ gave us Labor Day because he walked on the grass
- Patent
- A piece of paper that says you have the rights over an invention and no one else has the right to sell it
- Alaska
- Seward's Folly
- Buffalo
- 1874: The last herd of _________ exist in N. Texas
- Horizontal
- ___________ takes control of surrounding area; vertical builds up (ex. skyscrapers)
- Exclusion
- Chinese _________ Act - Kicked the Chinese out of the US
- Hiram Revels
- First African-American US Senator
- George Eastman
- Made photography a hobby for anyone near Rochester, NY
- Inflation
- Due to rapid technological innovation in manufacturing and shipping, the macroeconomy went through a long period of ________
- Pacific Railway
- ________ ________ Act - aided in the completion of the transcontinental railroad; government gave hand-outs to railroad companies because of this act
- William Tweed
- "Boss" who dominated Tammany Hall
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- He controlled all railroad traffic and out of New York City
- Black
- ______ Codes replaced the Slave Codes
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Led the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives
- Railroad
- President Hays called out the US Army to shoot strikers in the big event of 1877; the Great ______ (Upheaval) Strike
- Theft
- Crime was almost always blamed on immigrants; ________ was most prevalent
- Birds of Passage
- Italian immigrants were considered this due to their seasonal migration pattern
- Samuel Gompers
- Started the AF of L (American Federation of Labor)
- Edward Bellamy
- Wrote "Looking Backward"
- Henry George
- Father of the Progressive Movement with his "Progress and Poverty"
- Compromise
- The ________ of 1877 took the last of northern troops out of the South
- Reese
- _______ v. US - Supreme Court allows voting qualifications (Literacy test, grandfather clause, etc.)
- E. C. Knight
- US v. ________ pulled the teeth out of the Sherman Anti-trust Act
- Kagama
- US v. ________ - Supreme Court defines Native Americans as "wards" under the "protection" of the American government
- Burke
- ________ Act - designed to speed up Native American assimilation
- Frontier
- This was officially closed in 1890 by the Department of the Interior
- Little Big Horn
- Custer's Last Stand
- A Century of Dishonor
- Helen Hunt Jackson's book about the mistreatment of Native Americans
- Immigrants
- Union Pacific employed ________ to build their railroads (Mostly Irish and Chinese)
- Homestead Act
- Provided "Americans" could get title to 160 acres of "public land" for use as a "homestead" to develop agriculture in the West
- Levi Strauss
- Manufactured heavyweight trousers for gold miners
- Robber Barons
- Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and William Tweed are examples of _______ _______
- Japanese
- Largest Asian group to the US; most settled in Hawaii
- Dead Man's Hand
- Aces and Eights
- Social Darwinism
- "survival of the fittest" in society
- Knights of Labor
- Lawyers, stockbrokers, gamblers, alcohol peddlers, and bankers could not be a member of Powderly's club, called _________
- Puritans
- Like the ________ of the early 17th Century, the Jews of the New Immigration came as nuclear families
- Montgomery Ward
- Along with Sears, Roebuck took advantage of railroad lines to sell products through mail-order catalogues
- Homestead
- Biggest strike of the 1890s against Henry Frick's heavy-handed management style
- Haymarket Square
- Ended Terrence V. Powderly's growing labor union
- Carpetbaggers
- Name given to group of northerners that came South during Reconstruction
- Tariff
- The Biggest political issue of the Gilded Age
- John D. Rockefeller
- This man controlled 90% of the nation's oil refining capacity
- Cholera
- Most common death along the Oregon Trail
- Brigham Young
- Took the Mormons to Salt Lake City