APUSH Chapter 26

What great Indian battle did the Fetterman massacre lead to? Where did the battle take place?

Battle of Little Bighorn in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains

This famous indian battle will be the last in the Indian Wars which lasted from 1860s-1890s.

Battle of Wounded Knee

By using both silver and gold to back the American dollar what type of financial policy is this called? What is the advantage/disadvantage of this monetary policy?

Bimetallism, more of currency can be printed however it is hard to maintain the equal values of each type of currency and certain classes preferred certain currency

This protest march will head towards Washington lead by "General" Jacob S. Coxey trying to ask for government help to the unemployed by having the Treasury issue $500 million in legal tender.

Coxey's Army

This Act will try to remove all remnants of Native American life by trying to "civilize" the Native Americans by placing them in Government run schools and forcing them to give up all their tribal lifestyles.

Dawes Severalty Act 1887

What did the Indians receive from the Federal government in return for their ancestral lands?

Defective provisions (moth-eaten blankets, spoiled beef)

What consequence did dry farming have on the mid-West in the 1880s?

Dust Bowl

What famous socialist will emerge out of the Pullman Railway Strike in 1894 seen as a friend of the workingman?

Eugene V Debs

What two famous characters will meet in this battle?

George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull

What famous Indian leader will surrender in 1886 in Arizona after a relentless chase?

Geronimo

This famous farmer movement will be created in 1867? By who?

Grange Movement arranged by Oliver Kelley

How did the introduction of the horse by the Spanish change Native American life?

Horses gave the Plains Indians a fast transportation method and gave them an edge when hunting the buffalo because they could keep up with the herd.

What New Deal program will try and restore land and tribal ways to the Indians in 1934?

Indian Reorganization Act

How successful was this movement?

It had a short term success but as an economic movement it failed.

This man is responsible for perfecting the barbed wire fence.

Joseph Glidden

What famous German will give rise to Socialism in the late 19th century?

Karl Marx

This man will be responsible for the William McKinley victory in the 1896 election and later will run the Republican Party politics to victories in the early 1900s.

Mark Hanna

Why was the Republican victory in 1896 seen as such a great victory?

McKinley campaigned from home and Jennings Bryan was the favorite among farmers

What did white treaty makers misunderstand about both Indian government and Indian society?

Native American "tribes" and "chiefs" were figments of imagination, white treaty makers could not grasp the fact that Natives usually recognized no authority outside their immediate family or a village elder. And the nomadic culture of the Plains Indians was utterly alien to the concept of living out one's life in the confinement of a defined territory.

These Americans will be the last to gain their citizenship in 1924?

Native Americans

This will be the last "Land Rush" by the federal government in April 1889 and sees many "sooners" illegally enter this territory before they were allowed to stake claim to land.

Oklahoma Land Rush

What third party will be created in the 1880s and ran James Weaver as their presidential candidate?

Populist Party

How did President Cleveland solve the Pullman Railway Strike in 1894?

President Cleveland ordered the Army to stop the strikers from obstructing the trains

What short-lived political party will eventually leave and indelible mark on the United States

Progressive Party

What transportation device both helped the Long Drives and doomed it in the same breath? How?

Railroad, it ended the wide open spaces where cattle drives occurred but helped business boom.

What took place at Sand Creek, Colorado in 1864?

Sand Creek Massacre

Why did many Indians surrender their ancestral lands in the 1860s?

The Indians surrendered their ancestral lands only when they had received solemn promises from Washington that they be left alone and provided with food, clothing, and other supplies.

What was significant about the 1890 census?

The United States census of 1890 showed a total of 248,253 Native Americans living in America, down from 400,764 Native Americans identified in the census of 1850. The 1890 census announced that the frontier region of the United States no longer existed, and that the Census Bureau would no longer track the westward migration of the U.S. population. Up to and including the 1880 census, the country had a frontier of settlement. By 1890, isolated bodies of settlement had broken into the unsettled area to the extent that there was hardly a frontier line. This prompted Frederick Jackson Turner to develop his Frontier Thesis.

This treaty will mark the beginning of the reservation system in the West.

Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851

What was historian Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis"-explain it.

Turner's thesis contained truths and fallacies of the West's "rugged individualism" notion of settling the West. Without the West, the prosperity of the US would not be possible. The frontier promoted being a self-starter and the idea of individualism.

Where will the first US government national park be created in 1872? What was its name?

Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho

How had the number of Indians been reduced to 243,000 in 1887 (3Bs)?

bullets, battles, bacteria

This invention in the 1880s will allow food to be transported over thousands of miles across the US?

icebox/refrigerator car

What were the two concerns of the farmers in the late 19th century?

low prices and deflated currency

What was a "Sodbuster"?

poured in praries and built homes from the very sod they dug from the ground and burned corncobs for warmth

What factors led to the decline of the Long Drives?

railroad expansion, barbed wire fences

Besides in battle, how were the Native Americans defeated on the plains?

settlers decimated the buffalo population and chased them off their lands

What did the "fifty-niners" find?

silver in Pikes Peak