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- Exodusters
- Black former slaves who moved westward
- Push-Pull factors
- Events and conditions that force ppl to move elsewhere or strongly attract them to do so.
- Poll Tax
- special fee that must be paid before voting
- Steerage
- open area beneath a ships deck
- Morrill Land Grant Act
- Gave land to colleges who specialize in agriculture and mechanical arts. E.x. MSU
- William Jennings Bryan Speech
- Cross of Gold
- Ragtime
- infectious music started in New Orleans
- Deflation
- drop in prices on goods b/c of the money supply
- Gilded Age
- term coined by MARK TWAIN to describe Reconstruction era
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored Ppl
- Rebate
- partial refunds to favored customers
- political Machine
- unofficial city org. designed to keep a group in power
- Battle of Little Big Horn
- Souix chief, Red Cloud, singed treaty after Col. Fetterman died
- RFD
- Rural Free Delivery
- Graft
- (Boss Tweed) uses one's job to gain profit
- Sociology
- Study of how ppl interact in society
- Bland - Allison Act
- Act to increase the use of silver. Pres. Hayes voted the bill
- Civil Service
- Gov. non-elected workers a person must take a civil service test to get certain Gov. jobs
- Booker T. Washington
- Tuskee Institute for Blacks
- 1st magazines
- McClures, Cosmopolitan, and Mansey's
- N.Y.C.
- "The Golden Door" Ellis Island
- Vauderville
- inexpensive variety show of comedy, song, dance, magic, etc.
- The Grange
- (Patrons of Husbandry)
- bonanza farm
- Farm controlled by large businesses, managed by pro's
- temperance Movement
- organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption
- bimetallic standard
- currency based on gold and silver
- Prohibition
- ban on alcohol
- vice
- immoral or corrupt behavior
- High tariffs and laissez faire
- Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Clevland, Harrison and McKinley
- Ghost Dance
- where ppl join hands and whirl in a circle and called spirits of the dead
- Non-treaty Souix
- Killed Custer at Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were leaders
- Lynching
- murders by mobs
- literacy
- ability to read and write
- Massacre at Wounded Knee
- 7th Cavalry killed Sitting Bull and 200 others
- Nomed
- ppl that move from place to place following food
- Yellow Journalism
- sensational news coverage that's not always true
- Great Plains
- Vast grassland locates between Miss. River and the Rocky Mtn's
- Program
- violent massacre of Jews in Russia
- Homestead Act
- Signed by Lincoln, gave away 160 acres, had to be 21, a citizen, or applying for citizenship. Had to build a house on the land and live in it for 6 months, and after 5 months it was theirs
- Pres. McKinley
- Assasinated by an anarchist Leon Czolgosz
- Assimilation
- one society becomes a part of another more dominated society by adopting its culture
- Boomers
- whites who stake claims on 2 mill. acres of indian res. land on April 22, 1889, in Oklahoma
- Jim Crow
- laws that discriminated against Blacks
- Laissez Faire
- hands off economic matters by the Gov.
- George Catlin
- famous artist of the Native American culture. Buffalo Chase & Single Death
- Reservation
- Fed. land set aside for Indians
- Spoils system
- elected officials appointing friends and supporters to gov. jobs
- Suburb
- resident communities surrounding cities
- Populist
- rural political party also called the PPL's party
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- prevented China laborers from entering very racist and not repeated until 1943
- Dry Farming
- planting crops that don't need a lot of water
- Settlement Houses
- community center that offered social services to the poor
- Alien
- non-citizen
- Philanthropist
- ppl who give donations to a good cause
- Pacific Railway Act
- Gov. gave away 175 mill. acres of land to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific R.R's
- Dawe Act
- divided Res. land into individual plots
- Long Drive
- herding thousands of cattle to railway centers scattered across the great plains. Abeline, Texas, & Dodge City and Witchita Kansas
- Frederic Remington
- famous western painter known for painting COWBOY life
- Stereotypes
- exaggerated or oversimpliffied description of realtiy