AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition Chapter 17 The Last West and the New South, 1865-1900
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| 5810892726 | The Great American Desert | Name given to lands between the Mississippi and the Pacific Coast before 1860. There was very little rainfall in this area and the conditions were poor for settlement. (p. 339) |  | 0 |
| 5810892731 | boomtowns | A town that grew in mining areas where there were rushes. These usually didn't last because the gold usually ran out, or there was no gold at all. (p. 340) |  | 1 |
| 5810892732 | Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | In 1862, this act was passed to prohibit further immigration by Chinese laborers to the United States. (p. 341) |  | 2 |
| 5810892735 | cattle (long) drives | Moving the cattle from Texas to railroad towns in Kansas. (p. 342) |  | 3 |
| 5810892737 | Joseph Glidden | He invented barbed wire to help farmers fence in their lands on the plains. (p. 342) |  | 4 |
| 5810892738 | Homestead Act | In 1862, this act offered 160 acres of public land free to any family that settled on it for 5 years. (p. 342) |  | 5 |
| 5810892742 | The Indian Appropriation Act | ended recognition of tribes as independent nations by the federal government and nullified previous treaties made with the tribes. (p. 345) |  | 6 |
| 5810892744 | Little Big Horn | In 1876, the Sioux Indians, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, massacred the U.S. 7th Cavalry led by General Custer. This was the last major battle between the U.S. Army and the American Indians. (p. 345) |  | 7 |
| 5810892745 | assimilationists | The idea that Native Americans should be integrated into American society by becoming educated, adopting American culture, customs, and Christianity. (p. 345) |  | 8 |
| 5810945471 | Carlisle School | run by Richard Pratt who believed Native Americans could assimilate to US life, brought native children far from homeland and gave them English names and immersed them in American sports, clothes, and church, they were taught farming and carpentry | 9 | |
| 5810955698 | "Kill the Indian, save the man." | Famous quote by Richard Pratt, who sought to assimilate the Native Americans into American culture. | 10 | |
| 5810892746 | Helen Hunt Jackson | The author of "A Century of Dishonor", which created sympathy for Native Americans, but also generated support for ending American Indian culture through assimilation. (p. 345) |  | 11 |
| 5810892747 | Dawes Act of 1887 | This act supported the idea of assimilation of the American Indians. It divided tribal lands into plots of up to 160 acres. U.S. citizenship was granted to those who stayed on the land for 25 years and adopted the habits of American life. (p. 345) |  | 12 |
| 5810892748 | Ghost Dance movement | This religious movement was a last effort of Native Americans to resist U.S. government domination and drive whites from their ancestral lands. In an effort to suppress the movement, at the Battle of Wounded Knee more that 200 American Indians were killed. This battle marked the end of the Indian Wars. (p. 345) |  | 13 |
| 5810892749 | Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 | In 1934, this act promoted the re-establishment of tribal organization and culture. Today, more than 3 million American Indians, belonging to 500 tribes, live within the United States. (p. 346) |  | 14 |
| 5810892757 | Forest Reserve Act of 1891 | Authorized the President to set aside public forests as National Parks and other reserves. This act withdrew federal timberland from development and regulated their use. (p. 347) |  | 15 |
| 5810892758 | Forest Management Act of 1897 | allowed the Secretary of the Interior to manage forest preserves,harvesting of timber, mining of mineral resources, and use of water on forest reservations. |  | 16 |
| 5810892759 | John Muir | fought for conservation of resources by writing articles that led Teddy Roosevelt to expand national parks (347) |  | 17 |
| 5810892760 | "New South" | After the Civil War, the South was in a period of recovery. There was a new vision for a self-sufficient southern economy built on economic diversity and laissez-faire capitalism. (p. 347) |  | 18 |
| 5810892768 | George Washington Carver | An African-American scientist, who promoted planting of diverse crops such as peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. (p. 348) |  | 19 |
| 5810892769 | Tuskegee Institute | An industrial and agricultural school established by Booker T. Washington to train blacks. (p. 348) |  | 20 |
| 5810892771 | Civil Rights Cases of 1883 | the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not legislate against the racial discrimination practiced by private citizens, which included public businesses...essentially legalized segregation with regard to private property. 349 |  | 21 |
| 5810892772 | Plessy v. Ferguson | An 1896, Supreme Court landmark case, which ruled that separate but equal accommodations in public places were constitutional and did not violate the 14th amendment. (p. 349) |  | 22 |
| 5810892773 | Jim Crow laws | In the 1870s, the South passed segregation laws which required separate washrooms, drinking fountains, park benches, and most other public facilities, for blacks and whites. (p. 349) |  | 23 |
| 5810892774 | literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses | After Reconstruction, these various political and legal devices were created to prevent southern blacks from voting. |  | 24 |
| 5810892776 | lynch mobs | In the 1890s, more than 1,400 African American men were hung by a mob without trial by these Southern groups. |  | 25 |
| 5810892779 | Ida B. Wells | She was the editor of a black newspaper, campaigned against lynching and Jim Crow laws, activist for anti-lynching laws and co-founder of the NAACP with W.E.B. Dubois. |  | 26 |
| 5810892780 | Booker T. Washington | Famous African-American, who established an industrial and agricultural school for African Americans in 1881. In 1900, he organized the National Negro Business League to support businesses owned by African Americans. (p. 350) |  | 27 |
| 5810892785 | National Grange Movement | In 1868, this organization was created primarily as a social and educational help for farmers. (p. 351) |  | 28 |
| 5810892786 | cooperatives | Grangers established these business, owned and run by the farmers, to save the costs charged by middlemen. (p. 351) |  | 29 |
| 5810892788 | Munn v. Illinois | Supreme Court case in 1877, which upheld the right of a state to regulate businesses of a public nature, such as railroads. (p. 352) |  | 30 |
| 5810892789 | Wabash v. Illinois | Supreme Court case in 1886, which ruled that individual states could not regulate interstate commerce. (p. 352) |  | 31 |
| 5810892790 | Interstate Commerce Commission | independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; had the power to investigate and prosecute pools, rebates, and other discriminatory practices. (p. 352) |  | 32 |
| 5811085454 | Populist Movement | Movement of farmers in the late 1800s to become politically involved to protect their interest in America; movement wanted to expand the money supply and regulate Big Business. | 33 |
