APUSH Easy Test Unit 10

Ghost Dance Movement

Ghost Dance Movement

Spiritual exercise and gathering in which many Sioux Indians attempted to revitalize and maintain their traditional buffalo hunting life style.

Wovoka

Leader of the Ghost Dance Movement

Marxism

19th century economic theory believing inequalities of society were a result of human social-economic systems.

Karl Marx, Fredrich Engels

Two creators of Marxism.

Communist Manifesto

Pamphlet published by Engels and Marx

Eastern Europeans, Southern Europeans, Irish, Jewish

Four new types of immigrants that flooded American cities in the late 19th century.

-Protect wages and jobs (economy)

-Preserve the country (nativism)

Two reasons why many Americans opposed increased immigration in the mid-nineteenth century.

-War

-Famine

Two conditions causing Chinese nationals to immigrate to the US in the mid-nineteenth century.

Wounded Knee Massacre

The battle where US soldiers killed scores of American Indians after an accidental rifle discharge.

Dawes Severalty Act

Name of the act in which the US government attempted to assimilate and Americanize American Indians in boarding schools

Hardata, Crow

Two American Indian tribes that successfully assimilated into American life.

Chinese Exclusion Act

One specific example of nativists limiting immigration in the late 19th century.

Fort Laramie Treaty

Last treaty formed by the US government with the Native Americans tribes attempting to protect the Sioux Tribes in West Dakota.

Sioux, Cheyenne

Two warrior American Indian tribes that actively resisted settlers and the US army in the late 19th century.

Private Property

In Marxism, this is the issue/concept the two classes struggle to take control of.

Panic of 1893

The financial crisis in 1893.

Social Darwinism

Social theory applied to the evolutionary concept of natural selection that believed the rich and powerful were justified in their exploitation of the poor uncivilized people of the world.

Henry George

American intellectual who argued that real estate speculators? “who contributed nothing to the purchased real estate” should pay a high capital gains tax which the government could redistribute to combat income inequality and poverty.

Progress and Poverty

Name of the book relating to redistribution of wealth and capital gains tax by Henry George.

-Clerks

-Teachers

-Nurses

Three types of jobs available to women in the late 19th century that allowed them greater economic independence, especially those that were single.

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

The act in 1890 that required the US treasury to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver per month in order to stabilize and protect the American monetary system.

Grover Cleveland

After investors profited from the purchase, resale, etc during the Sherman Act, this president repealed the act.

-Pol Pot Cambodia

-Stalinist Soviet Union

-Maoist China

Three examples of 20th century Communist regimes that resulted in the persecution and death of tens of millions.

Gospel of Wealth

The essay written by Carnegie arguing that it is a moral obligation of individuals to preserve wealth for the betterment of American society.

Greenback Party

Party in the late 19th century that advocated the use of printed money instead of gold and silver standards as had been used by the North during the Civil War.

Buffalo Bill

Man who massacred many buffalo to limit the American Indian’s independence

Enclave

Location or area inhabited by a culture or ethnicity surrounded by other cultures/ethnicities.