APUSH Unit 6

What did the United States purchase from Russia in 1868?

Alaska

Why did Mormon women argue that giving them the right to vote in Utah Territory would benefit the Mormon community?

Because they would outvote non-Mormon miners In 1870, due in part to organized pressure from Emmeline Wells and other Mormon women, the Utah legislature granted full voting rights to women, becoming the second U.S. territory to do so. The measure increased Mormon control of the territory, since most Utah women were Mormons, while non-Mormons in mining camps were predominantly male.

How did the United States persuade the Japanese to open trade relations?

By wielding naval power to persuade the Japanese to sign a treaty Prior to the Civil War, Commodore Matthew Perry had forced the Japanese through gunboat diplomacy to sign a treaty in 1854 opening two ports for U.S. ships to refuel. Americans wanted open trade for missionary purposes as well, which they received in 1858.

What did the Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull mean when he said "the life of white men is slavery"?

He had no interest in adopting white culture. Sitting Bull was explaining his lack of interest in white culture. He elaborated by saying, "I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in open country and live in our own fashion."

What distinguished the story of "Deadwood Dick" whose stories were published as The Life and Adventures of Nat Love in 1907?

He was born into slavery in Tennessee. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love was written by a Texas cowhand who had been born in slavery in Tennessee and who, as a rodeo star in the 1870s, had won the nickname "Deadwood Dick."

What two areas came under U.S. control as a result of the Mexican War?

New Mexico and Arizona The United States took Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico in the Mexican War of 1846-1848. By the 1870s, economic change had occurred slowly, and much land still remained in the hands of Mexican farmers and ranchers. But the post-Civil War years brought land-hungry Anglo-American settlers who used the new U.S. court system to take away large sections of Mexican American lands, leading to Latino displacement.

Why did new prairie homesteaders often spend their first winter in hillside dugouts rather than houses?

The plains lacked the lumber for housing construction.

what made the Yellowstone Valley more appealing?

The taming of Indians

For what reason had states chartered corporations in the early nineteenth century?

To fulfill specific public purposes States chartered corporations in the early nineteenth century to assume responsibilities in the public interest but beyond the capabilities of government, such as banking, transportation, or higher education.

Giant corporations that dominate whole sectors of the economy through monopoly power are known by what name?

Trusts

1868 Burlingame Treaty

guaranteed the rights of U.S. missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the U.S.

Which interest group directly shaped Ulysses Grant's peace policy for the West?

he inherited a U.S. Indian policy in disarray. Based on recommendations from Christian reformers, Grant developed a peace policy for the West. Reformers were in charge. Many were former abolitionists and had created reform organizations to assist Indian people. They rejected army racism in favor of Indian assimilation through education and religious training in boarding schools.