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Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance (also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a religious movement which was incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. TERM 2
Dawes Severalty Act
DEFINITION 2 The Dawes Act, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide the land into allotments for individual Native Americans. TERM 3
Chief Joseph
DEFINITION 3 Chief Joseph (March 3, 1840 - September 21, 1904) was the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce during General Oliver O. TERM 4
Sand Creek Massacre
DEFINITION 4 The Sand Creek Massacre was an incident in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70-163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. TERM 5
Manifest Destiny
DEFINITION 5 Manifest Destiny was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
Volstead Act
The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States. TERM 7
19TH amendment
DEFINITION 7 " the right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of sex or gender TERM 8
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
DEFINITION 8 an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement TERM 9
Alice Paul
DEFINITION 9 Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist and activist. TERM 10
Ethnocentric
DEFINITION 10 Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own.
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14,
- Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor. TERM 17
Andrew Johnson
DEFINITION 17 Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869). TERM 18
Robber Barons
DEFINITION 18 the name given to unscrupulous and despoticnobilityof the medieval period in Europe TERM 19
Panama Canal
DEFINITION 19 The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. TERM 20
Imperialism
DEFINITION 20 Imperialism, as defined by The Dictionary of Human Geography, is "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationships, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination." The imperialism of the last 500 years, as described by the above work, is primarily a western undertaking that employs "expansionist - mercantilism and latterly communist - systems." Geographical domains have included the German Empire, the Mongolian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Portuguese Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Dutch Empire, the Persian Empire, the French Empire, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Empire, the Chinese Empire, and the British Empire, but the term can equally be applied to domains of knowledge, beliefs, values and expertise, such as the empires of Christianity or Islam (see Caliphate).
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit, usually in competitive markets. TERM 22
Philippine-American War
DEFINITION 22 The Philippine-American War, also known as the Philippine War of Independence or the Philippine Insurrection (1899- 1902), was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the United States which arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to gain independence following annexation by the United States. TERM 23
Rough
Riders
DEFINITION 23 the name bestowed on the first United States Volunteer Cavalry
