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- who did the populist movement help?
- farmers and laborers
- who helped the Native Americans?
- Thomas Nast and Helen Hunt Jackson
- Populist movement had a strong focus on
- land and nature
- how did spanish influence native americans?
- brought the gun and horse
- how did native americans leaders rule?
- by council
- what did spanish influence do to the native americans?
- increase mobility more efficient hunting created tribal warfare
- what book did helen hunt jackson write?
- a century of dishonor
- who was in charge of the Massacre at Sand Creek?
- S.R. Curtis
- what did the Dawes Act do?
- supported assimilation congress tried to Americanize NA by forcing individual land ownership
- Battle of Wounded Knee...
- ended all indian wars
- who invented barbed wire?
- Joseph F. Glidden
- whenwas the close of the frontier
- 1890
- what was the homestead act of 1862?
- offered 160 acres free to gead of household
- what are exodusters?
- af. am. who moved from post-reconstruction to Kansas
- what are dugouts?
- homes dug into sides of ravines
- soddies?
- freestanding, made from blocks of prairie turf
- women's role in the west?
- worked in fields sheared sheep
- who invented the reaper?
- cyrus mccormick
- what was the more efficient way to pan for gold?
- sluices and rockers
- greenbacks?
- paper money not exchanged for gold or silver
- hard backs?
- coins and paper money in yellow ink that is exchanged for gold
- who founded The Grange?
- Oliver hudson kello
- what was the 'people's party'?
- populist party
- what did populism fight for?
- rights of farmers and laborers
- who did the populists battle?
- railroad company
- Goldbugs?
- republicans in panic of 1893; wanted less money in circulation
- silverites?
- democrats in panic of 1893; wanted more money in circulation
- why did populism collapse
- sided with the democratics (jennings bryan) who had little support and funds
- who write rags to riches stoies?
- horatio alger
- steel monopoly?
- carnegie
- oil monopoly?
- rockefellar
- railroad monopoly?
- vanderbilt
- ownership and profits remain with individual companies with huge concentration of powers to reduce competition
- trust
- buy up other companies to achieve monopoly
- horizontal integration
- buy up companies in related but different areas to achieve monopoly
- vertical integration
- who made steel production more efficient
- Bessemer
- who created the time zones
- professer c.f. dowd
- who wrote theory of biological evolutioin
- charles darwin
- who wrote the evolution of human society
- herbin spencer
- leader of the Knights of Labor?
- Terrence Powderly
- Leader of American Federation of LAbor
- Samuel Gompers
- American Railway Unuion
- eugene debs
- nativism?
- overt favoritism to native born americans
- Who required immigrantas to write 25 words of the constitution in some language before being accepted into the country?
- henry cabot lodge
- What banned entry into the US to all chinese immigrants except students merchants teachers and tourists?
- Chinese exclusion act
- What made Japan's gov. agree to limit immigration of unskilled workers to the US
- Gentlemen's Agreement
- Danish american
- JAcob Riis
- lockout?
- lock out employees so they wont get paid
- scab?
- replacement worker?
- Blacklist?
- 'bad' list of union members passed around to different factories so they won't be hired
- tenement?
- multi-family dwelling
- first department store?
- wanamaker's
- Leader of taminy ring?
- boss tweed
- president during the span. am. war?
- mckinley
- president during expansion west?
- ulysses s. grant (prbably)
- imperialism?
- one country conquers territories not contiguous to their own
- what are the four types of imperialism?
- colonial cultural political economic
- starting countries for imperialism?
- britain, france, spain, netherlands, portugal
- who enetered the empire race late? why?
- Japan- late industrialiazation Germany- not unified italy - industrialization
- Rough riders
- led by roosevelt
- yellow journalism
- complete fabrication of the truth published in magazines and newspapers
- allowed cuban sugar to enter Us duty free
- mckinley tariff act
- placed a 40% tax on cuban sugar because we got our own from HAwaii
- wilson-gorman tariff act
- incorporated territories and examples?
- territories destined for statehood; alaska hawaii
- unincorporated possessions and examples?
- territories not destined for statehood; citizens not guaranteed rights of constitution; PR philipines, samoa
- imperialists justify themselves with...
- social darwinism
- examples of imperialists were ...
- Roosevelt, Mahan, Strong
- anti-imperialists believed imperialism was a threat to...
- democracy
- who wrote "the influence of sea power upon world history" and thought we need a strong navy to be a world power
- Alfred t. mahan
- congrssional minister, wrote 'our country'
- josiah strong
- roosevelt was a ________ in span. am. war
- jingo
- What did the US possess before the Span. am. war?
- midway islands, alaska, leased pearl harbor
- cuba's nickname in span. am. war?
- ever faithful isle
- last remnants of spain in the new world?
- PR and cuba
- editor of 'the new york journal'
- hearst
- editor oif 'the world'
- pulitzer
- battleship that mysteriously exploded in havana harbor?
- uss maine
- year of span. am. war?
- 1898
- letter that the press publishes saying mckinley is weak, would-be politician thatdoes what people tell him to
- Delome letter
- this admiral attacked spain in Manila Bay, Philipines and was successful?
- admiral Dewey
- Was the US army prepared for the span. am war?
- no
- deported from the philipines after continuing to fight america because the philipines did not get freedom after war?
- emilio aguinaldo
- Us gets these territories after the war...
- wake island, PR, Cuba, philipines
- who wrote the 'open door letters'
- john hay
- how much does china pay for the boxer rebellion?
- 333 million
- fueling point on way to china and japan and owned befor span. am. war
- midway island
- this man purchased alaska?
- seward
- nickname for alaska
- seward's ice box
- naval station on route to austrailia and new zealand
- samoa
- which fueling station is split between US, britain, and germany?
- samoa
- where dewey sinks spanish fleet?
- philipines
- ceded to us from spain for 20 mil.
- guam, PR, and philipines
- last area with fighting in span. am. war
- PR
- progressive presidents in order
- roosevelt, taft, wilson
- appointed governor of the phillipines?
- taft