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APUSH 2014/2015

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Sitting Bull   a leader of the Sioux tribe; arrested for his support of the Ghost dance and died in the Battle of Wounded Knee  
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George A. Custer   set out in 1874 with the Seventh Cavalry to return Plains Indians to the Sioux reservation; defeated an Indian army that outnumbered his men 10 to 1  
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Chief Joseph   leader of the Nez PercĂ© tribe; fled with his tribe to Canada instead of the reservations; US troops came and brought them to a reservation  
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Geronimo   leader of the Apache tribe; had an enormous hatred for whites, fought against them when they were trying to push Apaches off of their land; surrendered in Mexico  
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Helen Hunt Jackson   author who wrote A Century of Dishonor, which chronicled the government's misdeeds against Indians; her writing helped inspire sympathy for Indians  
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John Wesley Powell   an explorer and geologist who warned that agriculture could not survive west of the 100th meridian  
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William Hope Harvey   author of the popular pro-silver pamphlet "Coins Financial School"  
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Mary Elizabeth Lease   an eloquent Kansas populist who urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell"  
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Frederick Jackson Turner   American historian who said that humanity would continue to progress as long as there was new place to move into; therefore the frontier was a solution for social problems such as homelessness  
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James B. Weaver   nominated by Populists for the 1892 election; gained support primarily in the west  
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Jacob S. Coxey   marched on Washington in 1894 demanding that the govt relieve unemployment by an inflationary public works program  
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Eugene V. Debs   labor leader arrested during the Pullman Strike in 1894  
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William McKinley   25th president responsible for the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, the annexation of Hawaii, imperialism; assassinated by an anarchist  
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna   Ohio businessman and Hamiltonian who aided McKinley personally and politically; he believed in "trickle down" economics; his campaign helped nominated McKinley  
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William Jennings Bryan   congressman who spoke for the cause of free silver, advocating for the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act; gained a democratic nomination in 1896 after his "Cross of Gold Speech"  
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Sioux Wars   lasted from 1876-1877; spurred by gold-greedy miners in Sioux land who were breaking a treaty; Sitting Bull vs. Custer  
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Nez PercĂ©   Indian tribe that fled capture from US troops and almost made it to Canada before they were captured and put in a reservation  
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Apache   Indian tribe that was led by Geronimo; very difficult to control; chased into Mexico by federal troops  
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Ghost Dance   a cult ritual that attempted to call the spirits of past warriors to inspire young people to fight; crushed at Battle of Wounded Knee; led to Dawes Severalty Act  
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Battle of Wounded Knee   a group of Christian missionaries accompanied by American troops attempted to convert Indians to Christianity; the troops stormed the reservation killing many Indians  
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Dawes Severalty Act   1887; dismantled Indian tribes as legal entities; set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres of land each; tried to make rugged individualists out of Indians and attempted to assimilate Indians into American society  
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Little Big Horn   battle in which General Custer and his men were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse  
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Buffalo Soliders   African-American soldiers who formed 1/5 of the frontier soldiers after the Civil War; nicknamed for their resemblance to buffalos  
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Comstock Lode   valuable silver found here; caused many Californians and "fifty-niners" to migrate to Nevada  
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Long Drive   process by which Texas cowboys would herd cattle over plains until they reached a railroad terminal  
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Homestead Act   passed in 1862; stated that a settler could acquire up to 160 acres of land and pay a minimal fee just for living on it and settling it for 5 years; land was actually ravaged by drought and hard to cultivate  
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Sooner State   Oklahoma's nickname because many people entered it illegally before it officially became a state  
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safety-valve theory   as the population of the US increased there was always a way to release the population; the west had always acted as a safety valve but by 1890 the safety valve was gone because there was no more frontier  
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Bonanza Farms   large farms that came to dominate agriculture in the West; used large amounts of machinery and hired workers that were trained to do one very specific thing  
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National Grange   formed in 1867 as a support system for struggling western farmers; an educational and social organization under the leadership of Oliver Kelly; lobbied state and federal governments for legislation that would protect farmers from big business  
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Granger Laws   a series of laws passed in Western states after the Civil War to regulate grain elevator and railroad rates and rebates  
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Farmers' Alliance   sponsored social gatherings, active in politics, fought against the dominance of big businesses  
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Colored Farmer's National Alliance   an alliance of farmers designed to attract black farmers bc it was difficult for black and white farmers to work together  
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Populist Party   began to emerge in 1891; gained support from farmers who wanted to fight political unfairness; progressive platform  
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Coin's Financial School   pamphlet released by William Hope Harvey; advocated the use of silver coins  
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Coxey's Army   a group of people that marched on Washington demanding jobs; were arrested  
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Pullman Strike   strike led by Eugene V. Debs; US military stepped in because strikers were interfering with US mail  
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Cross of Gold Speech   a speech given by William Jennings Bryan that advocated the use of silver coins  
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Gold Bugs   Democrats who couldn't stand Bryan's ideas on silver coinage and left the democratic party  
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"16 to 1"   the rate of silver to gold that silver would be worth  
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"fourth party system"   political era of Republican dominance beginning in 1896, when many key issues faded  
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Dingley Tariff Bill   replaced the Wilson-Gormon law and raised the tariff  
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Gold Standard Act   ended pro-silver opposition; allowed paper money to be redeemed freely for gold  
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