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- chisholm trail
- Chisholm Trail, historic route from Texas north through the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) to Kansas, used by cattlemen when they drove their herds north for shipment by rail to eastern markets in the period after the American Civil War.
- jame adams
- founded 1st settlement house in american history (hull house in chicago)
- plessy v ferguson
- supreme court ruling that segregation is legal and didnt violate 14th amendment
- sitting bull
- medicine man and political keader who led the sioux, cheyenne, and arapaho away from reservations to fight and led them to victory
- wounded knee creek massacre
- military group captured native americans at wounded knee creek and killed them
- laissez-faire
- reject state intervention through measures such as protective social legislation and trade restriction; no gov't interference
- ghost dance
- sacred dance performed in hope of restoration of the Plains Indians' way of life
- george armstrong custer
- military officer who led an attack on the sioux and cheyenne warriors in 1876, his command was massacred near little bighorn river
- vertical integration
- self-owned business that buys stocks untilthey own a majority of business so they have a monopoly over it
- push and pull factors
- push are the reasons people left their homes and pull factors are the reasons they moved to the west
- populism
- movement that was created to help people
- social gospel
- protestant intellectual movement of early 20th century that applied christ actions to problems
- homestead act
- allowed head of faily or one of 21 and older to claim free land and must live on it for 5 years; promoted movement to the west
- social darwinism
- survival of the fittest applied to society
- dawes act
- broke up Native American reservations and divided land but oftentimes the gov't sold the best land and gave rest to indians. americanization
- chief joseph
- leader of the nez perce tribe that surrendered to US army in canada after many young men in his tribe killed settlers
- capitalism
- free enterprise. personal ownership of a business without gov't interference
- booker t washington
- felt that african americans should accept segregation and the best way to overcome it is to improve you farming an d vocational skills
- john d rockefeller
- american philanthropist who was rich off standard oil corporations. he had a monopoly
- reservations
- land set aside: an area of land set aside for a particular purpose, especially in North America for the use of a Native North American people
- Sand Creek Massacre
- The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre or the Battle of Sand Creek) was an incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped on the eastern plains.
- political machine
- unofficial system of political organiztion based on favors and threats
- battle of little bighorn
- 3 native american tribes banded together under the leadership of sitting bukk were victorious against custer and his cavalry
- andrew carnegie
- top business man for steel company; philanthropist
- geronimo
- an Apache leader who in resistance to the reservations fled and led raids on the Arizona-Mexico border for years
- gilded age
- period where many grand social and economic changes occures. poor = poorer rich = richer
- w.e.b. dubois
- believed african americans shoul fight for full rights and founded the naacp and the niagra movement