Pathways to Present Chapter 14 vocab
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Book : American Pathways to present
Chapter 14 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Push pull factors | events and conditions that either force (push) people to move elsewhere or strongly attract (pull) them to do so - reasons for major migrations - |
| Pacific Railway Acts | granted every alternate section of public land to the amount of five alternate sections per mile on each side of the RR - gov gave large land grants to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific RR - received |
| Morrill Land- Grant Act | gave state gov millions of acres of western lands, which could raise money for colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts - congress passed it in 1862 |
| Land Speculators | People who bought up large areas of land in the hope of selling it later for prophet |
| Homestead Act | signed by President Lincoln, 1862 - it was that the settlers could have 160 acres of land for a small fee if : were older then 21 or head of family, american citizen , built house a certain size , lived in it for at least 6 months a year and farmed land. |
| Exodusters | African american settlers who followed reconstruction - 50000 of them migrated west - Benjamin Pap Singleton was leader |
| Great plains | vast grassland between the Mississippi river and rocky mountains - changed NA lives - buffalo was huge part on plains : gave food , clothing and shelter - horses were brought from Mexico in 1700s |
| Nomads | people who traveled from place to place following food sources instead of living in 1 location - used horses |
| Reservations | federal lands set aside - NA were restricted to them |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | June 1876, battle between George Custer and Siox - Siox won with 2,000 warriors killing 200 per hour - took place in Montana - Custer was demolished |
| Ghost Dance | ritual where people joined hands and whirled around in a circle - was promised by prophet - popular with Teton Sioux - responded with violence (difference in culture) |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | last major episode of violence in the Indian wars - officer killed sitting Bull - 120 men , 230 women and children surrendered at creek, someone fired which lead soldiers to open fire killing 200. |
| Assimilation | process by which one society becomes part of another, more dominant society by adopting its culture |
| Dawes act | divided reservation land into individual plots - each NA received a plot - 160 acres - land holders were granted US citizenship subject to local state and federal laws |
| Boomers | settlers who staked claims on about 2 million acres |
| Sooners | people who had seaked past the gov officials earlier to mark their claim |
| Placer mining | a technique using a shallow pan in which a miner scooped dirt and water, then swished it around - lighter particles washed away while the gold was left behind |
| Long drive | the herding of thousands of cattle to railway centers across the plains - cowboys used it |
| Homesteaders | those who farmed claims under the Homestead act - first order was to build a home - built a dugout or soddie |
| Soddie | (sod home) structure with walls and roof made from blocks of sod - strips of grass with the thick roots and earth attached - cost less then 10 $ |
| Dry farming | a water conversation technique : including planting crops that do not need so much water- keeping fields with no weeds and digging furrows so water can reach the plants root |
| Banzana farms | operations controlled by large business, managed by pros and raising massive quantities of single cash crops. |
| Turner thesis | a theory that was made by Frederick Jackson turner - 1893- claimed that the frontier had played a key role in forming the American character |
| Stereotypes | exaggerated or over simplified descriptions of reality |
| Money supply | the amount of money in the national economy - if gov increased money supply, the dollar value drops - this drop causes rises on goods |
| deflation | drop on the prices on goods - people who lend money are helped by deflation - after the civil war , nation had deflation |
| Monetary Policy | federal gov plan for the makeup and quantity of the nations money supply, thus emerged as a major political issue |
| Bimetallic standard | a currency consisted of gold or silver coins or the US treasury notes that could be traded in for gold or silver |
| Free Silver | unlimited coining of silver dollars to increase the money supply - silver rites called for it |
| Bland - Allison act | 1878 , was for the silverrites, a step in the right direction - required federal gov to purchase and coin more silver , increasing the money supply and causing inflation, passed by congress - vetoed by president Rutherford B Hayes because he opposed inflation it would create |
| Sherman Silver Purchase Act | 1890, congress passed it - increased the amount of silver the gov was required to purchase every month - law required treasury to buy silver with notes that could be redeemed for either silver or gold - it backfired when exchanged silver for gold - president Cleveland over saw repeal of act |
| The Grange | (patrons of husbandry) founded by Oliver H, Kelley - helped farmers form cooperation's which they bought good in large quantities at lower prices - pressured state legislatures too regulate business on which farmers depended. |
| Interstate commerce act | signed by Cleveland - regulated the prices that railroads charged to move freight between states requiring the rates to be set in proportion to the distance traveled - made it illegal to give special rates to some costumers - made principle that congress could regulate RRs - set up ICC to enforce laws |
| Populists | a new national party that demanded radical changes in federal economic and social policies - increased circulation of money - unlimited minting of silver - progressive income tax - gov ownership of communication and transportation |
| cross of gold speech | 1896 domestic convention in Chicago where William Jennings Bryan made speech which then nominated him as president - Most famous in american history |
| Minors | created new wealth (Au, Ag..) - took Indian land - changed natural landscape - boom towns/ ghost towns |
| Ranchers | brought beef to east - encouraged RR expansion - cow towns -Indian land stolen/ takes |
| Farmers | made land productive - Indian land was taken - farmed rural towns - lured imigrants |
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