HIST1302 PART ONE REVIEW SHEET
“The Great American Desert”
“One Big Reservation”
Concentration Policy
Racist Attitudes Toward Indians
Gen. Phillip Sheridan
Slaughter of the Bison
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Chief Black Kettle
Black Hills Indian War (1875-1877)
Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
Carlisle Indian School
Reservation Life
Wovoka & the Ghost Dance
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
The “Battle” of Wounded Knee
Burlingame Treaty
California Gold Rush (1849)
Chinese Immigrant Experience
Racist Attitudes Toward Chinese
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Hispanic Southwest
Racist Attitudes Toward Hispanic People
The Homestead Act (1862)
“Sodbusters”
“Exodusters”
Bonanza Farming
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory
“Boomers” and “Sooners”
Oklahoma Land Rushes
The “Open Range”
Joseph G. McCoy
Cattle Drives and Trails
Cowboys and Ranchers
The End of the “Open Range”
Post-Civil War Industrialization
Factors That Made Industrial Growth Possible
The Growth of Railroads
The Transcontinental Railroad (1869)
Meucci, Bell and the Invention of the Telephone
Edison and the Invention of the Light Bulb,
Phonograph and Motion Pictures
Westinghouse, Tesla and Alternating Current
The Battle between AC and DC
“Captains of Industry”/”Robber Barons”
J. Pierpont Morgan & Investment Banking
Andrew Carnegie & the Steel Industry
John D. Rockefeller & the Petroleum Industry
Working People (wages, hours, conditions)
Inequitable Distribution of Wealth
Child Labor
Socialism & Anarchism
Knights of Labor
Terence V. Powderly
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Haymarket Incident (1886)
Albert Parsons, August Spies, Samuel Fielden
and the other Haymarket Anarchists
John Peter Altgeld
The Homestead Strike (1892)
Andrew Carnegie & Henry Clay Frick
Alexander Berkman
Rapid Urbanization
Steel Girders, Elevators, and Skyscrapers
Tenement Houses
Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives
Urban Problems
The Statue of Liberty (erected 1886)
Late 19th Century Immigration
Ellis Island
Woman Suffrage Movement
Equal Rights Association
American Woman’s Suffrage Association
Lucy Stone & Julia Ward Howell
National Woman’s Suffrage Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
The Susan B. Anthony Amendment
National American Woman’s Suffrage
Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & The Woman’s Bible
Civil Rights Act of 1875 and Supreme Court
Decision of 1883
“Jim Crow” and Racial Segregation
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
“Atlanta Compromise”
Plessy vs. Ferguson
W. E. B. Dubois
“Social Darwinism”
Henry George & Progress and Poverty
Clarence Darrow & The Social Justice
Movement
Edward Bellamy & Looking Backward
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The “Social Gospel”
Andrew Carnegie & the “Gospel of Wealth”
Jane Addams and the Settlement House
Movement
Hull House
Differences Between the Two Major Political
Parties (Then and Now)
Politics of the Late 19th Century
Thomas Nast
Election of 1880
Assassination of President Garfield (1881)
Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)
Election of 1884
James G. Blaine & Grover Cleveland
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Election of 1888
Benjamin Harrison
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
The Farmers Alliance & the Knights of Labor
The Populist or Peoples’ Party
Election of 1892
The Panic of 1893
The Depression of 1893-1897
Coxey’s Army (1894)
Pullman Strike (1894)
George Pullman
Eugene V. Debs
The Election of 1896 and “The Battle of the
Standards”
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan & the “Cross of Gold”
Speech
The Purchase of Alaska
Hawaiian Islands
Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani
Senator Blount’s Investigation
Annexation of Hawaii
Cuban Independence Movement
The Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
Teller Amendment
Spanish-American War (1898)
Commodore Perry & the Battle of Manila Bay
Theodore Roosevelt and the “Rough Riders”
Emilio Aguinaldo and the Philippine
Independence Movement
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Philippine-American War (1899-1902)
General Frederick Funston
Anti-Imperialist League
Platt Amendment (1904)
“Open Door” Policy in China
Boxer Rebellion
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