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Mutualists: Organized together to help each other through hard times, necessay because the government is not taking care of this at this point
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation;to oppose racism;and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights
What was the anti-imperialists' criticism of the Hawaiian annexation and the US occupation of the Philippine Islands?: No war (war is costly), Nativism (anti-immigration), if you acquire this colony then people will start coming into the country, racism- wanted to keep the United States for the native-born white people. Labor/Wages (when you bring in people from outside the country, usually foreign workers who are willing to work for less, the wages will go down for the native born labor workers), humanitarian concerns, democracy (we may say we're bringing democracy but we aren't allowing the Filipinos to have their own democracy and make their own choices)
How did Western Expansion lead to the Civil War?: States coming into the union had to decide whether to become free or slave states
Populism: Belief that big industries such as railroads are trying to screw over the farmers and little companies, Mary Lease was the leader of the populism movement, said the government lies, they steal, we need to stand up for ourselves
Geronimo: Savage Indian who had been tamed to be a farmer, he was captured in 1886, he wand his family were farmers and considered a tourist attraction
Little Big Horn: Battle where Custer and 200 soldiers were killed, "Custer's Last Stand"
Wounded Knee: Last gasp of Indian resistance, moment in time where they say this is the end of the Indian wars. Came after Jackson's book. Massacre occurs when people surrender. Set up machine guns facing the Indian villages. Women, children, and old folks were killed.
Henry Grady: Wanted to convince the North that the South had changed, New South journalist in Atlanta, helped the confederate states get back into the Union
Methods used by white southerners to regain political power during and after Reconstruction: Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause, Mississippi plan, disenfranchisement, White Only Primaries, Intimidation, Corruption, Lynching, KKK
Missionary Diplomacy: Woodrow Wilson
Compromise of 1850: Texas came in as a slave state and California came in as free
Plessy v. Ferguson: Challenges Jim Crow laws, the decision was separate but equal ("Classified" black man sat in a "white" man railcar)
Gan Saam: California nickname, Chinese for Gold Mountain
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: When a Caribbean country is out of line we will get to spank 'em" not the European countries, we will do the discipline, we will keep the Caribbean countries and countries close to us in line
Manifest Destiny: Destiny to spread from sea to shining sea
Booker T. Washington: Born to interracial parents, focused more on job training than on schooling, kept quiet about political issues, respected by both whites and blacks
Pancho Villa: Trying to catch him because he went on a rampage in Vera Cruz ?!?!?!
14th Amendment: Intended to give a lot of civil and voting rights, a useless amendment unless you were a business, citizenship
W.E.B DuBois: Booker T. Washington's rival, the first black student to graduate from Harvard with a Ph. D, Civil Rights Activist, wrote a book on Reconstruction
Ida B. Wells: African American journalist who led an antilying crusade in the United States in the 1890s, born to slave parents
Yellow Journalism: Hearts and Pulitzer spitting out information covering the war in Cuba, battling each other for viewing, added drastic facts to stories for effects
Dawes Severalty Act: Assimilation, the US government wants to make the Indians good citizens like the European Americans, trying to change the nomadic Indian tribes into farming Indian tribes and christianize them along the way, divides the reservation into 160 acre tracks, family gets track and benefits, trying to undermine the tribal structure, tribes owned land but they wanted each family to own land and gain independence and encourage farming and family.
Vicksburg: Northern victory, final major battle of the Civil War, major turning point
Southern Industry: Textiles and Steel
Kansas Nebraska Act: Created the territories for Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the settlers to decide if it would enter the union as a free or slave state
Open Door Policy: Trying to get a balance of power in China and Asia, America wants to get in and tap into the Chinese economy, we had our doors closed to China but expected them to have their doors open to us
Gold Rush Impact: Inspires huge numbers of people to come to California, United States tries to keep as many foreigners out of the gold mining, U.S. and CA State government try to push people out of the gold money, want to save the most lucrative gold mining for the whites in America, enforcing a foreign tax
How did the US acquire the Panama Canal?: We protect Panama from Columbia and block the Columbian troops from putting down rebellion on Panama
Exodusters: The largest groups of blacks to move West-led by Benjamin Singleton
Fronteir Thesis: Fredrick Jackson Turner, The United States is unique because we have a fronteir, there's always a place to go for resources, and we have a saftey valve
What strategic advances did the South have?: Robert E. Lee (the best general)
The Maine: A U.S. warship that blows up in Havana harbor, results in a battle between the Spanish and Americans
Queen Lili: Inherits the throne from her father from Hawaii and realizes that what is happening in Hawaii must stop (no more poor wages, rough land, lack of taxes). Makes statement of change and the plantation owners try to think of ways to stop her from this mission
What were the reasons the US became involved in the Spanish-American war?: Territory, Cuban was being oppressed, economic interest in Cuba, Scorched Earth policy
Development of Free AA Community--Institutions, leaders: NAACP, NACW, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B DuBois
Emilio Aguinaldo: Led the Cuban revolutionary movement
Missouri Compromise: Missouri came into the union as a slave state but to provide balance Maine came in as a free state. The 36' 30' line was used as a line to separate the free and slave states (also known as the Mason Dixon Line)
Cattle Drives: Cattle industry dealt with railroads by marching their cattle from Texas to Chicago because they didn't want to spend the money putting them on railroads. Farmers developed barbed wire so they could farm and keep their cattle off their land and out of their water. Cattle drivers would cut the fences, which would start mini wars ("The Fence Cutting Wars")
Railroads: Chinese worked on railroads, northwestern railroads mostly built by Chinese labor, first national industry, owned by wealthy individuals, replaced wagons and horses, symbol of progress
Mississippi Plan: Disenfranchisement, poll tax, literacy test, whites only primaries, grandfather clause
Vaqueros: Mexican cowboys, taught white and black cowboys how to be cowboys, became migrant laborers on the land they used to own
Robert E. Lee: Against slavery, but a General for the South because he was a Virginian and wanted to stay loyal to the South
Chinatown: Chinese immigrants, mostly men go to San Francisco to find gold, congregate, planned on returning home so they didn't both to assimilate with American ways
U.S. Grant: U.S general, commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War (1864-1865), 18th president, reduced violence by KKK
Big Stick Diplomacy: Roosevelt's presidency
Chinese Exclusion Act: Passed in 1882, kept the Chinese from coming to the United States because the US felt threatened by their success
Paternalism: The United States feels they are the father figure and the other countries are too child-like to be able be independent
Anti-Imperialism: Grover Cleveland was one, didn't want to extend a new frontier in worldly relations
What made the US begin looking outside of the U.S. borders for territory?: The US had already explored and taken control of all the land from sea to shining sea. The frontier had closed.
Nativism: The response of native-born white Americans to Chinese immigrants, "We don't want you here, go home"
Bleeding Congress: Incident between Sumter (North Massachussets) insults Butler and Butler beats him to near death
Gettysburg: A north victory, a turning point in the Civil War
Cuba Libre: Cuban independence and Cuban revolution, declared Cuba free but we still had full control of their decisions and money
Jim Crow: Any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South (segregation, disenfranchisement, lynching)
William Lloyd Garrison: Radical Abolitionist, wrote "The Liberator", First abolition movement
George A. Custer: Sent to move the Cheyenne to another place that they thought was better, "don't kill them unless they resist", when the Indians began to run away Custer thought they were resisting. He first killed the horses and buffalo-Custer was looking for an excuse to open fire. He was very vain, an attention seeker.
Theodore Roosevelt: War hero, assistant secretary of the Navy, captain of the Rough Riders, governor of NY, Vice President, became President when McKinely was assassinated, "Big Stick Diplomacy"
Lincoln Douglas Debates: Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, used as a campaigning tool to win control of legislature
Buffalo Soldiers: Black soldiers who went out and fought the Indians, main reason the US sent soldiers out West
Birth of Nation: The most racist and one of the first movies to show racism, movie becomes a recruiting tool because the KKK saves the day, protested by the NAACP and banned in many cities-possibly counter effective?
Atlanta, Birmingham: Rising cities that were considered the New South Industry, responsible for Textiles and Steel, slaves migrated here for job opportunities
Niagara Movement: Black leaders strategize what to do about their situation
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse: Two major leaders in the Lakota War, included the Lakota and Sioux Tribe, Sitting Bull gets arrested and killed and used his notoriety to get cash for himself, and took part in Buffalo Bill's Wild West
15th Amendment: Voting Rights, Prohibits preventing someone to vote;equal rights for citizens (Women do not get voting rights yet)
Las Gorras Blancas: Known for property destruction, not hurting people-barn burning, taking down fences, in order to get access to land
What advantages helped the North to win the War?: They had more resources to fight a war, more people to participate, technological advances (manufacturing was developed)
Stated goals of the New South leaders: Expanding industry, make it so the North thought the South had changed
Panama Canal: Provided a shorter route to transport warships from New York to California 5,200 miles
Caballeros de Labor: Spanish version of Unionism, have their parallels in the white population
Compromise of 1877: The democrats won the popular vote, but Republicans win presidency with the electoral vote-Compromise: Democrats would back down but the President would back down in the South so they could control themselves
Homestead Act of 1862: Big impedance to colonists, passed right in the middle of the Civil War, a political carrot, one million family farms were established as a result-gave settlers 160 acres of land if they would go and live and improve on the land.
Mexican American War: War between Mexicans and Americans over the annexation of Texas
Emancipation Proclamation: Only freed slaves in seceded states
13th Amendment: Abolished Slavery

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