US History Project

1. Chapter 13
Changes in the western frontier
1786 1862-1900 1879
Great Plains were The Homestead Exodusters was a
the grass land Acts were several name given to
existing through the United States African Americans
west-central portion federal laws that who migrated from
on the US, while gave an applicant states along the
distinctive and highly ownership of land, Mississippi River to
developed Native typically called a Kansas in the late
American ways of "homestead", at little nineteenth century,
life existed. or no cost. In the as part of the
United States, this Exoduster
originally consisted Movement or
of grants totaling Exodus of 1879.[
160 acres
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2. Chapter 13
Changes in the western frontier
1786 1862-1900 1879
Great Plains were The Homestead Exodusters was a
the grass land Acts were several name given to
existing through the United States African Americans
west-central portion federal laws that who migrated from
on the US, while gave an applicant states along the
distinctive and highly ownership of land, Mississippi River to
developed Native typically called a Kansas in the late
American ways of "homestead", at little nineteenth century,
life existed. or no cost. In the as part of the
United States, this Exoduster
originally consisted Movement or
of grants totaling Exodus of 1879.[
160 acres
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3. 1864 1868 1876
The Sand Creek Sitting Bull (Lakota: George Armstrong
Massacre (also Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake Custer (December 5,
known as the in Standard Lakota 1839 – June 25,
Chivington Orthography,[2] also 1876) was a United
Massacre, the Battle nicknamed Slon-he States Army officer
of Sand Creek or the or "Slow"; c. 1831 – and cavalry
Massacre of December 15, 1890) commander in the
Cheyenne Indians) was a Hunkpapa American Civil War
was an atrocity in Lakota Sioux holy and the Indian Wars.
the Indian Wars of man who led his
the United States people as a tribal
that occurred on chief during years of
November 29, 1864 resistance to United
States government
policies. 3
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4. Chapter 13
Changes in the western frontier

The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the 
The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah,[1]
General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a
Act of 1887),[1][2] adopted by Congress in new religious movement which was
1887, authorized the President of the United incorporated into numerous Native American
States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it belief systems.
into allotments for individual Indians. Dawes
Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by 
1890
the Burke Act.

1887

James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 
Long Drive- overland transport of the animals
1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a often lasted about three months
folk hero of the American Old West

1866-1885

1876

.
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5. Chapter 14
•A new industrial age
•Main events
1859-1901 1839-1987
1890
Monopoly is a John P. Rockefeller
complete control was an owner of
Sherman Antitrust
over it’s industry’s Standard Oil
Act made it illegal to
production ,wages Company
form a trust that
and prices. established by john
interfered with free
P.,they took a
trade between states
different approach,
or with other
they joined with
countries.
competing
companies in trust
agreements.
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6. Chapter 14-main events
1886 1891 1894-1905
Collective bargaining Eugene V, Debs
Samuel Gompers is a process of attempted to form
led the Cigar negotiations between such an industrial
Maker’s International employers and a union- The American
Union to join with group of employees, Railway Union.
other craft unions. aimed at reaching at
reaching agreements
that regulate working
conditions.
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7. Socialism is an Culture Shock is a
economic and Mugwumps were personal
political system Republican political Credit Mobilier is an
Trust is referred to disorientation,may
based on activities who bolted American railroad
as corporations such feel when
government control from the US construction
as Standard Oil experiencing an
of business and Republican Party by company setup by
company that took a unfamiliar way of life
property and equal supporting the Union Pacific
different way by due to immigration.
distribution of Democratic Railroad to build the
joining with It started in 1865
wealth. candidate Grover 1st Transcontinental
competing when millions of
Cleveland in the US Railroad in 1860s
companies in trust immigrants came to
agreements. Presidential Election America from
of 1884 different countries.
1885 1861-1870 1877 1884 1865 1860s
William Jennings Sweat shop is a Bessemer Process
Bryan signed his negatively connoted developed
position as secretary term for any working independently by the
of state. He gave a ' environment British manufacturer
Cross of Gold considered to be Henry Bessemer
Speech'. unacceptably and American iron
Vanderbilt Family is
difficult or maker William Kelly
an American family
dangerous. Used for around 1850-1866.
of dutch origin
builders of early Soon became widely
prominent during the
skyscrapers in New used . Injecting air
Gilded Age began
York City into molten iron to
with Cornelius
remove carbon and
Vanderbilt
other inpurities.
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8. Chapter 15
Immigrants and Urbanization.
1870-1892 1894 1890s
Ellis Island In New York Harbor. Melting Pot is a mixture of people Angel Island in San Francisco
About 20 % of the of different cultures and races Bay .Asians,primarily Chinese,
immigrants at Ellis Island blended together by were arriving on the West
were detained for a day or abandoning their native coast gained admission at
more before being languages and customs. Angel Island.
Thought by Native Americans.
inspected. However, only
2% of those were denied
entry.
1880s 1890s
Settlement House were community Urbanization is a growth of cities;
centers in slum mostly in the regions of the
neighborhoods that provided Northeast and Midwest.
assistance to people in the
area ,especially immigrants,
established by a few
reformers.
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9. Chapter 15
Immigrants and Urbanization
1868-1890 1868 1876-1890
Graft is an illegal use of political Tammany Hall is the New York Patronage is the giving of
influence for personal gain; City’s powerful democratic government jobs to people
political machine in 1868;Boss who had helped a candidate
Tweed was in head. get elected;in Andrew
Jackson’s administration this
political system was called a
Spoils System
1870s 1869-1871 1876-1890
Kickback is an illegal payment for Tweed Ring was a group of corrupt Civil Service was a government
the services , enriched the politicians in defrauding the administration- job should to
political machines and city;Boss Tweed led it in 1869- the most qualified persons,
individual politicians. 1871 reformers believed in Civil
Service.
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10. Chapter 15
Main events
1879 1880s
Jacob Riis pointed out , these Political machine was an organized group that
controlled the activities of a political party in a
multifamily urban dwellings,called city; also offered services to voters and
tenements ,were overcrowded and businesses in exchange for political and financial
unsanitary support
1886-1890 1883
Jane Addams was one of the most influential The resulting Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883
members of the movement of Settlement authorized a bipartisan civil service commission
Houses. to make appointments to federal jobs through a
merit system based on candidates` performance
on examination.
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11. Chapter 16
Life At The Turn Of The 20th Century
1870s 1900 1860s-1870s
Frederick Law Olmsted Booker T. Washington Poll tax is an annual tax
was a landscape was a prominent that had to be paid
architect;spearheaded African American before qualifying to
the movement for educator;believed that vote
planned urban parks racism would end
when blacks will get a
good education
1888 1895 1870s
George Eastman W.E.B. Du Bois is the 1st Southern States passed
developed a series of African American to racial segregation laws
more convenient receive a doctorate to separate white and
alternatives to the from Harvard in 1895 black people in public
heavy glass plates and private facilities.
previously used.
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12. Chapter 16-main events
1870s 1895
Jim Crow Laws were William Randolph Hearst
passed in Southern purchased the New York
States to separate Morning Journal in 1895.
whites and blacks in
public and private
facilities
1896 1911 1870s-1880s
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Debt Peonage was a system Mark Twain is a novelist and
Supreme Court ruled that that bound laborers into humorist declared the “
the separation of races in slavery in order to work independence of literature
public accommodations off a debt to the employer and all that bosh”. Also the
was legal and did not author of “ Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn”
violate the 14th
Amendment.
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13. Chapter 16
1872 1883
Mail order catalog launched in 1872, Joseph Pulitizer was a Hungarian immigrant
grew from a single sheet the 1st year who had brought the New York World in
to a booklet with ordering 1883, pioneered popular innovations.
instructions in 10 languages
1899-1890 1892
Vaundeville was a performance like Ida B. Wells was born into slavery shortly before
chorus,song, jugging. African Americans emancipation;worked as a teacher in
filled roles ,mainly in shows Memphis; later an editor of a local
paper;radical justice.
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