APUSH Unit 6: 1865-1898

What battle ended the Indian Wars? 300 Native Americans killed, including women & children

• Sand Creek

• Wounded Knee

• Dakota War

• Black Hills War

Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand; 7th Cavalry is destroyed by the Sioux

• Sand Creek Massacre
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Wounded Knee Massacre
• Red Cloud's War

Joseph Glidden invented this, which helped close the frontier and settle the Great Plains.

• reaper

• barbed wire

• steel plow

• combine

Native American religious movement; believed it would reunite the living with the spirits of the dead & unite Indian peoples

• Ghost Dance
• Pow Wows
• Vision Quest
• Peyote

Congressional law that promoted the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Pacific Railways Act
• Desert Land Act
• Morrill Land Grant Act
• Timber Act

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

Andrew Carnegie's belief in giving money to libraries, museums and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder through hard work.

• geopolitical

• political bosses

• Social Darwinism

• Gospel of Wealth

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book, How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida Wells

• Jacob Riis

What was the main goal of most muckraking journalists?

• Gain fame through articles of high popular interest
• Expose socioeconomic problems in need of political attention
• Increase public awareness of America's great potential
• End corrupt relationships between politicians and big business

What does Trust-busting mean?

• end discrimination
• stop monopolies (restore competition)
• label ingredients on food and drugs
• election for political offices