Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Social Studies
Social Studies Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transcontinental railroad | Railroad that spanned the U.S continent |
| Great Plains | The area from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains |
| Frontier | Parts of the West that were occupied mainly by Native Americans, rather than settlers |
| Solar Time | Time based on calculations of the suns passage across the sky |
| Standard Time | The time zone devised by railroad companies |
| Vaqucro | spanish term for cowhand |
| long drive | Journey that takes cuttle by foot to a railway |
| vigilante | person who takes the law into his or her own hands |
| buffalo soliders | native Americans gave to African americans soliders in the west |
| Mexicana | Spanish word for a person at Mexican heritage;a spanish -speaking person in the south west whose anseter had come from mexico |
| Anglo | English speaking settlers in the south west |
| Sand Creak massacre | 1864 attack in which as many as 200 Cheyenne were killed by the Colorado militia |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer at the Battle of little Bighorn |
| Gen George A. Custer | commander of U.S troops at the Battle of little Bighorn |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | 1876 battle in which Sioux and Cheyenne killed an entire force of U.S troops |
| Dawes Act | 1887 law that distribute reservation land to individual Native American owners |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | mass killing by U.S soldiers of as many as 300 unarmed sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota , in 1890 |
| Progressivism | reform movements that sought to raise living standards and correct wrongs in american society |
| Muckraker | writer who exposed corruption in American society |
| Patronage | exchanging government jobs and contacts for political support |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | law that made it illegal for corporations to gain control of industries by forcing triot |
| Theodore Roosevelt | president who led progressive reforms |
| Direct Primary | primary is when voters, not party conventions ,choose candidates to run for public office |
| Conservation | controlling resource usage |
| Civil Rights | granted to all citizens |
| William Howard Taft | republican elected president in 1908 |
| Sixteenth Amendment | amendment that gave congress the power to create income tax |
| Seventeenth Amendment | amendment that provided for direct election of U.S senators |
| Bull Moose Party | progressive political party in 1912 presidental election |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | legislation that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Acts power |
| Federal Reserve Act | law that created the modern banking system |
| Carry A. Nation | fought for prohibition |
| Prohibition | legal ban on the production , possession ,and sale of alcohol |
| Eighteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment enacting prohibition |
| Susan B. Anthony | fought for women suffrage |
| Carie Chapman Catt | president of national American Women Suffrage Association |
| Nineteenth Amedment | constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote |
Created by:
hunty17
Popular U.S. History sets