1. - Legislator - Social -Military
development
Vocabulary
1865-1895
Esthefany Cortes http://tinyurl.com/c2okhee
1st period

2. Sand Creek
Melting Pot: a
metaphor for a
Massacre: Cheyenne
heterogeneous tribe thought that if they
Exoduses': were to return to
society becoming
more homogenous African Colorado's Sand Creek
the different Americans who Reserve for the winter.
elements ‘melting moved from the General S. R. Curtis said
together” into a that he would make
harmonious whole
post-
with a common reconstruction peace till they made them
culture. South to suffer. Chivington and his
troops went and killed
Kansas.
over 150 people.
1780 1850 1862 1866
Homestead:
Bessemer Process: Congress passed this
Made by the British act offering 160 acres
manufacture Henry of land free to any
Bessemer and citizen or citizen who
American iron maker was head of the
William Kelly, soon house hold.
because widely used
technique involved
injecting air into Up to 600,000 families
molten iron to remove took advantage of the
the carbon and other governments offer.
impurities.

3. Buffalo Soldiers:
Originally just known as
members of the U.S.
Cavalry Regiment of the
U.S. Army formed on Sep.
21, 1866. This is a nick
name given to the “ Negro
Calvary” by the Native
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-sandcreek.html
Americans that they had
fought.
1866 1867
Grange: Started by Oliver Hudson Kelley, an organization
for farmers that became popularly known as the grange.
Oliver Hudson Kelly: Started the
patrons of Husbandry an
organization for farmers that
became popularly known as the
grange. Purpose was to provide a
social outlet and an education
forum for isolated farm families.
http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/activists.htm

4. http://www.josephthebutler.com/2011/08/profile-andrew-carnegie.html
Social Darwinism: An
ideology of society that seeks
to apply biological concepts of
Darwinism or of evolutionary
theory to social and politics.
Emerged in England and the
United States in the 1870’s.
1860 1870
Andrew Carnegie: Carnegie National Farmers
started as a telegrapher and Alliance: The largest
by the 1890’s has investment association of farmers.
in railroads, railroad sleeping
carts, bridge and oil derricks. More than 4 million,
He built Pittsburgh's mostly I the south and
Carnegie Steel Company . the west.
Then he sold it and sold it to
http://www.dipity.com/Ssmith12/Farmers-Rights-Populism_1/
and then he built Carnegie
Hall and founded the
Carnegie Corporation of the
New York and many more.

5. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/john-d-rockefeller-jr-1874-1960-everett.html
John D. Rockefeller: An
American industrialist and
philanthropist. He was the
founder of the standard oil
company which dominated the
oil industry and was the first
great us business trust.
1870 1872
Segregation: laws to Mail-Order Catalog:
separate whites and Montgomery Ward and Sear
black people in Roebuck brought retail
public and in private merchandise to small towns
facilities. Wards catalog.
http://www.alligatorsinthesewer.net/2009/02/23/sears-to-revert-back-to-mail-order-
catalog-company/
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/segregation-a-collection-of-
images/

6. Samuel Gompers : an Alexander Graham Bell :
English born American cigar Invested the telephone with
maker who became a union Thomas Watson. It opened the
labor leader and a key figure in way for a world wide
American labor history . Elected communications network. It
affected office work, along with
president of cigar makers
the type writers and created
international union local 144 in jobs for women.
1875.
1874 1875 1876
George Armstrong Battle Of Little Big Horn :
Custer: In 1874,when he combined forces like Lakota
reported that the Black northern Cheyenne and
Hills has gold “from Arapaho tribe against the 7th
grass roots down”, a gold cavalry regiment of the united
rush was on. When Colonel states army. It was a victory for
Custer and his troops the native Americans tribes over
reached the Little the “buffalo soldiers.”
Bighorn River, the Native
Americans were ready for
them. The native
Americans outflanked and
crushed Custer’s troops.

7. Southern Alliance: Only
white famers, primary
concerns were buying
equipment and supplies
together and marketing
issues, since prices had
been declining since the
early 1870’s.
1877 1879
Nez Perce : Forced off their Dumbbell Tenement : Also
tribal lands, the Nez (1877)Perce called Old Law Tenement
are returning almost 120 years House Act of 1879 and before
later. In 1997 Wallowa community the New York State tenements
leader obtained a grant to develop House Act of 1901.
the Wallowa Bond Nez Perce Trail
Inter. Center.

8. Grandfather Clause: James Butler “Wild
Passed by a number of Bill” Hickok: Never dealt Joseph Pulitez:
U. S. Southern States, with cows served as a Hungarian immigrant
scout and spy during the who bought New York
which created new Civil War and leader as a
literacy and property World in 1883. Which
,marshal in Abilene, had large Sunday
restrictions on voting, Kansas. He was a violent
but exempt those whose man who shot and killed
edition, comics, sports
ancestors had the right while playing poker. He coverage and women's
to vote before the Civil was holding a pair of news . He tried to
War. aces and a pair of eights surpass his competition
which is now known as “ William R. Hearst.
Dead mans hands”.
1880 1883
Thomas Alva Edison: A pioneer
on the new industrial frontier Ragtime: originated
when he established the worlds in the 1880’s in the
first research laboratory in saloons of the south
Menlo Park. There he perfected Scott Joplin's
the incandescent light bulb, ragtime
patented in 1880, and later competitions made
invented an entire system for him famous in the
producing and distributing first decade of
electrical power. 1900’s.

9. Republican political
activists who bolted from
the united states
republican party by
supporting democratic
candidate Grover
Cleveland in the United
States.
1884 1886
Colored Farmers
Alliance: About 250,000
African Americans
belonged to the colored
famers national alliance.
Houston, Texas is where
it started. A white Baptist
missionary, R. M.
Humphrey organized
this. Unlike others, they
had to work in secret to
avoid racially motivated
violence

10. Assimilation: a plan Sherman Antitrust Act:
under which native Prohibits certain business
activities that federal
Americans would give
Dawes Act: 1887, government regulators
up their beliefs and deem to be anticompetitive,
congress passed this act
way of life and and requires that federal
aiming to ‘Americanize” gov’t to investigate and our
became part of the the native Americans. It sure “Trusts”, companies,
white culture. Many broke up the reservation and organizations
sympathizers and gave some of the suspected of being in
supported. reservation land to violation.
individual native
1887 Americans (160 acres to July 2, 1890
each head of house hold
Transcontinental railroad: and 80 acres to each
a contiguous network, of unmarried adult. They
railroad track age that would sell the rest to
crosses a continual land reservations. The
mass with terminals at resulting income would
different oceans of be used by native
continental borders. They Americans to buy farm
helped open up unpopular implements.
interior regions of
continents to exploration
and settlement that would
not otherwise have been
feasible.

11. Wounded Knee: On Dec. William Randolph Hearst:
30 1890, Custer sold Purchased New York
regiment rounded up Morning Journal in 1895. He
about 350 suffering
wanted to out do Joseph
sloux and took them to
camp. The next day the Pulitzer by filling the Journal
soldiers demanded they with exaggerated tales of
give them their weapons, personal scandals, cruelty
a shot was fired and hypnotism, and even an
solder opened fire with imaginary conquest of Mars.
deadly cannon.
1890 1894 1895
Omaha Platform: the
party program adopted at
the formative convention
of the People’s Party held
in Omaha, Nebraska.

12. William Jennings Bryan:
At the democratic Ellis Island: Upper
convention, former New York Bay was
Nebraska congressman, the gate for millions of
WJB editor of the Omaha immigrants to the
World-Heralda, delivered united states as the
an impassioned address nations busiest
to the assembled immigrants inspection
delegates. “Cross of station from 1892-
Gold.” 1924
1896 1892
“Cross of Gold”- having William McKinley:
behind us the producing Ran in the 1896
masses of this nation interest campaign because
and the toilers everywhere the republican party
we will answer their demand
stated it’s firm
for a gold standard by saying
to them: You shall not press commitment, from
down upon the brow of labor Ohioan.
this crown of thorns you shall
not crucify mankind upon a
cross of gold.

13. Jane Adams: Founder
of Hull House in
Chicago public
philosopher,
sociologies, author
and leader in woman
suffrage and world
peace. First women to
be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.
1931 1965
Literacy Test: They
would try to make it
as impossible as they
could to make the
blacks or non-whites
not able to vote. They
would arrest non
whites with false
charges and beat
others for imagined
and made up things.