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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Direct primary | enabled voters, not political machines, to choose candidates for public office |
| recall | enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face an election before the end of their term if enough voters requested office |
| referendum | vote on an initiative |
| initiative | a bill initiated, or launched by citizens |
| 17th Amendment | allowed for the direct election of senators |
| lynching | illegal hangins by a mob without legal sanction |
| "Plessy v. Ferguson" | court case that ruled that it was legal to support segregation but they must provide separate but equal facilities |
| W.E.B. DuBois | demanded equality of economic and educational opportunities and he began the Niagara Movement |
| Booker T. Washington | former slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute which provided vocational skills to African Americans |
| Jim Crow Laws | enforced the separation of the races in railway cars, schools and all public facilities |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | President of NAWSA, she was a teacher from Mason City, Iowa |
| Alice Paul | founded the National Women's Party |
| Lucy Burns | Helped organize the Women's Suffrage March and was arrested more than any other suffragist |
| Ida Wells-Barnett | co-founder of the NAACP and worked for African American women's rights |
| Susan B. Anthony | help found NAWSA |
| Carry A. Nation | used a hatchet to destroy bottles of liquor |
| Robert La Follette | Progressive Wisconsin Governor |
| Ida Tarbell | muckraker who wrote "The History of Standard Oil" |
| Lincoln Steffens | considered to be leader of the muckrakers |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote "The Jungle" whcih exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry |
| Louis Sullivan | designed the first skyscraper |
| Marshall Field | built one of the first department stores in the nation |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | developed the first powered airplane |
| George Eastman | invented the Kodak camera |
| Frederick law Olmsted | led the movement for planned urban parks |
| Strategies of women suffragist | test the 14th amendment in court, advocated a constitutional amendment, convinced state legislatures to grant women the right to vote |
| 3 factors that contributed to the industrial boom | natural resources, growing urban population and government support of business |
| Completion of the transcontinental RR | Promontory, Utah |
| Goals of the Progressives | promoting social welfare, creating economic reform and fostering efficiency in the workplace |
| Why were the Sioux ordered off of their land | discovery of gold |
| Marked the end of Populism | the election of William Mckinley |
| Caused of the end of the Cattle era on the Great Plains | barbed wire, overgrazing and bad weather |
| Chisholm Trail | part of the long drive that ended in Abilene, Kansas |
| First American Cowboy | originally learned their skills from the Spanish |
| exodusters | formers slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains |
| Culture of the Plains Indians | the horse, the buffalo, the extended family and nomadic |
| William Jennings Bryan | gave the cross of gold speech and ran for president in 1896 for the "free silver democrats" and Populists |
| Bi-metaliism | economic policy that supported the minting of money with silver, favored by farmers because it made cheap money and it was easier to pay debt back |
| citizenship | a right granted to Native Americans in 1924 |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | one of the first treaties to be signed by native americans and the US government |
| Ghost Dance | a ritual performed by native americans in hopes of regaining their former life |
| Assimilation | white man's policy of help natives to adapt to the white culture by forcing them to give up their way of life and adopt that of the whit man |
| bonanza farm | massive single crop farm owned by private investors |
| The Grange | organization that started as a social outlet and educational forum for isolated farm families and soon became a political voice for farmers |
| Populist Party | political party which proposed an increase in the money supply, a graduated income tax and federal loan program |
| Vaquero | mexican cowboy who inspired early American cowboys |
| Oliver Hudson Kelly | he organized the Grange |
| Dawes Act | meant to 'Americanize" native americans by encouraging them to own land and farm reservation land that was given to them |
| Sitting Bull | Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, helped defeat Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| George Custer | Civil War hero who exercised poor judgement and attacked natives at the Little Bighorn Rives and it resulted in the death of himself and all of his troops |
| soddy | a home made our of prairie turf |
| Homestead Act | offered 160 acres of free land to anyone that would cultivate it for 5 years |
| Sand Creek Masacre | 500 peaceful Cheyenne were attacked without warning by the US army |
| Great Plains | vast grassland running through he central portion of the US |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | Marked the end of the Indian War when the US army killed 300+ Sioux |
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