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Stufflet APUSH U6P1
Unit 6--Part 1-- APUSH
Term | Definition |
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1st law to restrict immigration on basis of race/nationality | Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
ranching whereby cowboys corralled cattle on US government-owned land and drove them to RR junctions in Kansas for sale | “open range” ranching |
invention by Joseph Glidden that helped bring about the end of open-range ranching by cutting off access to the open ranges | barbed wire |
federal law that gave 160 acres of public land free to any family that settled on it for 5 years | Homestead Act of 1862 |
western settlers on Great Plains who built homes of grass | “sodbusters” |
Frederick Jackson Turner's theory that westward expansion shaped the American character | frontier thesis |
argued that American forces should stay off Indian lands | A Century of Dishonor |
place for Native Americans in Pennsylvania that sought to assimilate them into American culture | Carlisle School |
Law that attempted to assimilate Indians into American culture by dividing tribal lands into 160 acre farms or 320 acre ranches | Dawes Act |
A spiritual movement by the Sioux that claimed the white man would soon disappear from their lands | “Ghost Dance” movement |
"battle" between US troops and Sioux (Lakota) that signifies the end of the Indian wars | Wounded Knee |
term referring to South after Civil War; signifies new southern economy based upon integration into national economy, industry, and transportation improvements | New South |
Supreme Court case that said “separate but equal” accommodations in public were constitutional; started Jim Crow South | Plessy v Ferguson |
term that refers to racial segregation in the South after the Civil War | Jim Crow South |
black leader who founded the Tuskegee Institute; Said social equality was “folly”; so blacks should at least improve themselves economically | Booker T. Washington |
speech made by Booker T. Washington that said social equality was not possible yet and economic equality should be focus for blacks | Atlanta Compromise |
challenged Booker T. Washington's idea of accommodation (Atlanta Compromise); said blacks should work for total social and political equality | W. E. B. Dubois |
farm movement of late 1800s that forced lawmakers to regulate shipping costs | The Grange |
said the Black Hills belonged to the Sioux--but this was later violated by the US government | Treaty of Fort Laramie |
making someone interpret a document before they can vote | literacy test |
this allowed someone to vote who was otherwise excluded, based on their family's heritage | grandfather clause |
organization that used the legal system to fight for African-American rights | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |