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American Protective Association
nativist organization created in 1887 that campaigned for laws to restrict immigration
Hull House
A house formed by Jane Adams to house immigrants; one of the first settlement houses in the U.S
Social Gospel Movement
Taught religion &n human dignity to help the poor overcome problems of industrialization
Walter Rauschenbusch
leading Baptist adovocate of the "social gospel" who brought Christianity to slums and industry
Washington Gladden
Congregationalist minister who followed the social gospel and supported social reform
Fundamentalists
Old-time traditional religionists who rejected modern science & evolution
Modernists
People able to accept evolution & modern science
Chautauqua Movement
launched to help adult education; they achieved their success through nationwide public lectures
Booker T. Washington
An former slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute; encourage blacks to keep to themselves and focus on the daily tasks of survival rather than leading uprisings
George Washington Carver
A former slave who taught and did research at the Tuskegee Institute; an agricultural chemist
Dr. W.E.B. DuBois
1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard; encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination
Morrill Act (land grant colleges)
gave land grants in order to establish colleges with federal money; land grant colleges
Homestead Act
Law that gave an applicant up to 160 Acres (1/4 section) of undeveloped land; typically farmers
Turner Thesis
argument that the frontier was the key factor in the development of American democracy and institutions
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Major U.S. defeat in June 1876; violent warfare between the Whites & Native Americans
Chief Joseph
chief of Idaho's Nez Perce Indian; lead the Nez Perce during the hostilities between the tribe & the U.S Army
Dawes Severalty Act
Forced Indians to assimilate to white customs & values, banned Native’s Traditions & forced children to go to school
Reservations
System that allotted land with designated boundaries to Native American tribes in the west; it was owned communally, rather than individually, & Natives were encourage by the government top stay on the land at all times
Wounded Knee
Massacre of Indian men, women, and children because of the ghost dance, last major incident in the great plains
A Century of Dishonor
Written by Helen Hunt Jackson, it exposed the U.S. government's many broken promises to Native Americans
Patrons of Husbandry
known as the Grange; group of farmers in 1867 who worked for improvement for farmers
Granger Laws
a series of laws passed to protect farmers in western states to regulate grain elevator and railroad freight rates and rebates
Gold Bugs
referred to people who favored basing the US monetary system on gold to the exclusion of silver
Bi-metalism
the usage of both silver and gold as currency; believed in by democrats
Cross of Gold Speech
famous speech given by William Jennings Bryan; in support of bimetalism, Bryan spoke of the gold standard as a burden
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