APUSH 25-26 quiz

US population between 1870 to 1900 → 40 million people and later it had almost doubled.

New York CIty population → became a very big city being the 2nd largest city in the world with a population of 3.5 million people.

Immigration up to the 1880s and in the 1880s → 788,992 immigrants traveled to america.

Jane Addams → buys the hull mansion and turns it into a hull house.

Hull House → a place where they teach english and american stuff.

Nativists → someone born in america that thought that immigrants were disrupting and treated them badly.

Immigration Act of 1882 → chester author and congress passed this act to stop specific groups of immigrants from immigrating to america.

Chinese Exclusion Act → put into place to limit or stop immigration from china.

Statue of Liberty → when immigrants came to america this was the first thing they saw.

Edouard de Laboulaye → the one who came up with the idea to build the statue of liberty.

Development of High Schools → not until 1870 education became mandatory and by 1900 there were more than 16,000 schools.

Normal Schools → a school to teach people how to teach basically.

Booker T Washington → A champion for education of black individuals and said that everyone should have education.

George W Carver → Student of booker washington and goes to be a famous agricultural chemist.

Dr. W.E.B. Dubois → The first black individual to get an education at harvard.

Andrew Carnegie → Loved the access to books and being able to study and gain education, he built 2,509 libraries with his money.

Susan B. Anthony → Made the American woman suffrage associated, was placed in jail for voting.

Carrie Catt → women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment.

Sand Creek Colorado → hundreds of natives were killed and other natives were alert of it.

Bozeman Trail → gold had been discovered in Montana and fetherman and some others create a road to get to montana.

Treaty of Laramie → the sioux agree to leave and go to territory in oklahoma.

Colonel Custer → discovers gold in south dakota gold.

Nez Perce and results of gold → this group goes down about 90% after an argument with the government.

Sitting Bull → they go to arrest this person because they thought he was a ghost dancer.

Wounded Knee Massacre → they believe that they are practicing ghost dance and then a shot is fired, most of the natives that died were women and children.

What movement did massacre bring to an end? → this massacre brought an end to ghost dancing.

Dawes Act → proposes this act to calm down to fury in the west but he says that native americans will be given lots instead of land.

“Sooners” → someone who went into the state before allowed.

Benjamin Harrison and Oklahoma Land Rush → said that anyone can join the race for land but they have to wait for the gun fire.

Safety Valve Theory → people are tired of living where they are living and decide to go out west and get some land.

Farmers and advancement in buying manufactured goods → ward came out with the first catalog with the company called Sears to help people come up with a bigger catalog.

“Contraction” → when there is less money in circulation.

Results of farmers losing incomes → had to disclose their mortgages because of contraction to the point where they started renting acres.

Farmers problems between 1880s and early 1890s → droughts, grasshopper plagues, and where the soil would dry out quickly.

City , state, and federal government help with farmers → they didn’t help them except with their taxes.

Amount of farmers in 1890 → 50% of Americans were still farmers.