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BJU US ch 17
Amercia Expands (1850-1900) Defintions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Transcontinental Railroad | This was a railroad across the continent. The labor was mostly done by Irish “Paddies” and Chinese workers. |
| Union Pacific | Began in Omaha in 1865 and went west. |
| Central Pacific | Went east from Sacramento and met the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869. |
| Pike’s Peak gold rush | In1858, gold found in Colorado, may settler’s rush there to get rich. |
| Comstock Lode | Discovered in 1859 in Nevada. I was a fantastic amount of gold and silver worth more than $340 million was mined. |
| cattle drive | cowboys moving cattle across the open range to train terminals in the north to get beef to the east. |
| open range | areas cattle were driven through unfenced public land |
| The Homestead Act of 1862 | allowed folks 160 acres of land in return for living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee |
| Oklahoma land rush | explosion in population of Oklahoma as result of the Homestead Act. |
| Great Plains | area between the Mississippi River Valley and the Rocky Mountains |
| dry farming | method of farming that conserved water due to the lack of it in the west. |
| reservations | US govt set aside areas for Indians to live on. |
| Sioux War | (1876-1877) War between the Indians and the US government of land in the west |
| George A. Custer | arrogant boy general (good looking) During the Sioux, he attacked 2,500 Sioux warriors near the Little Big Horn River in Montana and was completely wiped out. |
| Sitting Bull | A Sioux nation leader. medicine man." Crazy Horse |
| Custer’s Last Stand | battle at Little Big Horn were the Indians completely decimating Custer’s Seventh Calvary |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | Indians were massacred out by U.S. troops, who killed women and children as well. This battle marks the end of the Indian Wars as by then the Indians were all either on reservations or dead. |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | author A Century of Dishonor, showed sympathy for the and ruthlessness of govt deals w/ Indians. |
| Dawes Severalty Act | This 1887 law dismantled American Indian tribes, set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres tried to make rugged individualists out of the Indians, and attempted to assimilate the Indian population into that of the American. |
| Maximilian I | Austrian Archduke Emperor of Mexico place as puppet government by Napoleon III in Mexico City, tried to move into us territory while us was preoccupied with Indians. Not successful. |
| commerce raiders | warships built and owned by confederates but built in British shipyards. |
| Treaty of Washington | tribunals set up to settle debts for the commerce raiders. |
| Commodore Matthew C. Perry | He opened up relations Japan when he steamed into the harbor of Tokyo in 1854 and asked/coerced/forced them to open up their nation. |
| Treaty of Kanagawa | Matthew Perry opened Japan up for trade with US. This broke Japan’s centuries-old traditional of isolation, and started them down a road of modernization and then imperialism and militarism. |
| Pan-American Conference | This conference was called by James Blaine and created an organization of cooperation between the U.S. and Latin American countries |
| Open Door Policy | encouraged European nations to keep fair competition open to all nations willing and wanting to participate. in trade with China. |
| Boxer Rebellion | Chinese revolutionaries that despised western intervention in China. The rebellion resulted in the deaths of thousands of converted Chinese Christians, missionaries, and foreign legions. It took 5 countries' armies and four months to stop the rebellion. |
| Imperialism | The policy and practice of forming and maintaining an empire, which usually seeks to control raw materials and world markets by the conquest of other countries, the establishment of colonies, etc. |
| Alaska Purchase | 49th state, William Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson and purchased Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million. It was referred to as "Seward's Folly" or “Seward’s Icebox” then, before its oil reserves were known. |
| Hawaii | sugar was valuable good, American’s in Hawaii want to annex Hawaii, a move opposed by itsQueen Liliuokalani—but in 1893, desperate Americans in Hawaii revolted. Eventually becomes the 50th state.Student Volunteer Movement |
| Faith Mission | Missions not tied to a denomination, had not set income, relied on donations. |
| yellow journalism | newspapers reported on wild and fantastic stories that often were false or quite exaggerated. Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were known as the lurid yellow press. The purpose of yellow journalism was to simply sell papers. |
| de Lome Letter | This person wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley and how he lacked good faith. He was forced to resign when William Randolph Hearst discovered and published the letter. This publishing helped to spark the Spanish-American War. |
| U.S.S. Maine | battleship in 1898 to Cuba. Sent there for basically a "friendly visit,” but actually, it was sent to protect and evacuate Americans if a dangerous flare-up occurred. It blew up on Feb. 15, 1898 in Havana Harbor. Spark to the Span-American war. |
| Spanish-American War | In 1898, Cuba wanted independence from Spain, US stepped in to assist Cuba after the de Lome Letter and bombing of the USS Maine in a 113 day war. |
| George Dewey | He was commander of the Pacific fleet of American ships in the Spanish-American War. He attacked the Philippines when war was declared by the U.S. and crushed the Spanish fleet there. |
| Rough Riders | American volunteers formed to fight at San Juan Hill in Cuba. Many were cowboys, ex-convicts, and other rugged men. Colonel Leonard Wood led the group, but Theodore Roosevelt organized it. |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | He was a revolutionary Filipino who commanded his Filipino troops to help American George Dewey to acquire Manila from Spain. He later led Filipinos against the U.S. in 1899 because of their denied freedom after the war. |
| Promontory Point | The Union Pacific (from Omaha, NE) and Central Pacific (from Sacramento, CA) linked together at this location in Utah in May 1869. |
| Chief Joseph | Chief of the Nez Perce Indians of Idaho. His people didn’t want gold hunters to trespass on their beaver river. To avoid war, and save his people, Chief Joseph tried retreating to Canada. They were cornered 30 miles from safety and he surrendered in 1877. |
| Geronimo | He was the leader of the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico, fought against the white man, who was trying to force the Apaches off of their land. |
| Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 | (the Indian “New Deal”),which encouraged tribes to preserve their culture and traditions. Not all liked it though, saying if they followed this “back-to-the-blanket” plan, they’d just become museum exhibits. 77 tribes refused (200 did). |
| Platt Amendment | gavethe U.S the right to take over the Cuba if that country entered into a treaty or debt that might place its freedom in danger. Gave the U.S. the right to put a naval base in Cuba to protect it (Guantanamo Bay) and the U.S holdings in the Caribbean. |
| Gentlemen’s Agreement | negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 with the Japanese government. The Japanese agreed to limit immigration, and Roosevelt agreed to convince the San Francisco School Board that segregation of Japanese schoolchildren should be stopped. |
| Root-Takahira Agreement | In 1908, the United States and Japan signed this agreement saying they would both honor the territorial possessions of the respective countries that were in the Pacific Ocean, and they would also uphold China's Open Door Policy |
| muckrackers | Bright young reporters that exposed evil in the country by digging deep for dirt that the public loved to hate. They sincerely believed that cures for the ills of American democracy, was more democracy. |
| Foraker Act | The Foraker Act of 1900 set up a Legislative Assembly in Puerto Rico that dealt with their domestic affairs. In1917, the same act gave the Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. |
| Randolph Hearst | Newspaper publisher who adopted a sensationalist style. His reporting was partly responsible for igniting the Spanish-American War. The most famous yellow journalist. |
| Teller Amendment | This was an act of Congress in 1898 that stated that when the United States had rid Cuba of Spanish misrule, Cuba would be granted its freedom. |
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