US HIST 1302- Unit 1 Exam

Transcontinental Railroad: 1887- Transcontinental railroad: opened the West, connected the East Coast and the West.
sharecropping: People rent the land (40 acres), and when harvest time comes, they owe the landowner 50% of the harvest. (The owner restricts what kind of crop you could grow and what was mostly grown was cotton.
Pacific Railway Act: Empowered the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad.
Homestead Act: A family who wants to move West could receive 160 acres of land, occupy and improve it for five years, and buy it for $10. Exoduster.
Exodusters
Plessy v. Ferguson:
Oklahoma Land Rush:
Central Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
Dawes Act: It is meant to assimilate the American Indian.
Wovoka: the prophet who shared the idea of the Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance:
ethnocentrism:
assimilation
Wounded Knee Massacre: Over 300 people were killed in this massacre even 7 babies over 29 US soldiers.
textile industry
Promontory Point: 1869: Promontory Point in Utah
Mexican-American losses: Mexican-American War, Seizure of Communal Land. 2 million acres of land they could keep
buffalo
Sooners
Laissez-faire:
crop-lien system: This is a credit system in which farmers can borrow money against their future harvest to buy supplies and pay rent.
Westward expansion: Railroads, Settlements, Indian Policy
Indian policy
child labor
working conditions
"separate but equal"
Jim Crow
disfranchisement
lynching
convict lease system
WCTU
tenement houses
vagrancy
Redemption
pig law
Ku Klux Klan
poll tax
grandfather clause
literacy tests
understanding clause
Great Migration
new immigrants                                       
tenements                                                     
Naturalization Act of 1870               
Chinese Exclusion Act           
Nativism
Ellis Island
Tammany Hall                                                               
political machines                                       
party boss                                                     
spoils system                                         
Boss Tweed                                               
Progressivism
muckrakers
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Jane Addams
Hull House
unions
Eugene Debs
Socialism
Anthony Comstock
Juvenile Protective Association
Morals Efficiency League
Carrie Nation
Prohibition
National Woman Suffrage Movement
Margaret Sanger
Australian Ballot
United Mine Workers
Northern Securities Case
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Redemption