APUSH Unit 6 Key Terms Unit 6 # 2

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American Protective Association

nativist organization created in 1887 that campaigned for laws to restrict immigration

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Hull House

A house formed by Jane Adams to house immigrants; one of the first settlement houses in the U.S

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Social Gospel Movement

Taught religion &n human dignity to help the poor overcome problems of industrialization

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Walter Rauschenbusch

leading Baptist adovocate of the "social gospel" who brought Christianity to slums and industry

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Washington Gladden

Congregationalist minister who followed the social gospel and supported social reform

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Fundamentalists

Old-time traditional religionists who rejected modern science & evolution

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Modernists

People able to accept evolution & modern science

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Chautauqua Movement

launched to help adult education; they achieved their success through nationwide public lectures

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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

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George Washington Carver

A former slave who taught and did research at the Tuskegee Institute; an agricultural chemist

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Dr. W.E.B. DuBois

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard; encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination

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Morrill Act (land grant colleges)

gave land grants in order to establish colleges with federal money; land grant colleges

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Homestead Act

Law that gave an applicant up to 160 Acres (1/4 section) of undeveloped land; typically farmers

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Turner Thesis

argument that the frontier was the key factor in the development of American democracy and institutions

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Battle of the Little Big Horn

Major U.S. defeat in June 1876; violent warfare between the Whites & Native Americans

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Chief Joseph

chief of Idaho's Nez Perce Indian; lead the Nez Perce during the hostilities between the tribe & the U.S Army

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Dawes Severalty Act

Forced Indians to assimilate to white customs & values, banned Native’s Traditions & forced children to go to school

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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

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Wounded Knee

Massacre of Indian men, women, and children because of the ghost dance, last major incident in the great plains

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A Century of Dishonor

Written by Helen Hunt Jackson, it exposed the U.S. government's many broken promises to Native Americans

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Patrons of Husbandry

known as the Grange; group of farmers in 1867 who worked for improvement for farmers

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Granger Laws

a series of laws passed to protect farmers in western states to regulate grain elevator and railroad freight rates and rebates

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Gold Bugs

referred to people who favored basing the US monetary system on gold to the exclusion of silver

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Bi-metalism

the usage of both silver and gold as currency; believed in by democrats

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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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