APUSH Unit 6 Key Terms Unit 6 # 2

Second key terms #2

American Protective Association

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