APUSH Period 5: Chapter 16

Provided jobs and money, transportation system that connected both sides of USA

Tariff on manufactured goods imported from foreign nations, giving American businesses an edge

States can regulate key businesses, such as railroads, grain elevators, and others that supported the public interest in this court case

Paper currency being backed by gold

Gave 160 acres to anyone who occupied and improved the property

Set aside 140 million acres that were sold to pay for colleges

Made to broaden educational opportunities and increase technical and scientific expertise

Silver mine in Nevada, shared fate of all mining towns

Cowboys did this when they hearded cattle to rail lines

Freedmen who migrated to open land in Kansas to make a life for themselves

Made for tourism, guarded by U.S. Army, first of its kind

Colorado militia attacks Cheyenne camp, slaughters women and children, Cheyenne prompted to attack whites along Sioux River

Congress can now make whatever they want about Indian policies, all former Indian treaties are nullified

An act attempts to assimilate Indians, tried to put them on homesteads like whites, fails horribly

Sioux vs. US, last military victory for plains Indians against US Army

Native hope that sacred dances could resurrect the bison and call a great storm to drive out whites, whites get spooked and exterminate

US kills 150-300 Lakotas in a massacre

Made model for US trade domination in Latin America/Asia, 1861-1869 Secretary of State, believed Asia would become the main aspect of world events

Leader of Nez Perce, tried to flee to Canada, crossed Yellowstone, fought/raided white settlements

Leader of Sioux, refused to move after Gold was found in Sioux nation

"______'s Last Stand", got slaughtered at the Battle of Big Horn

Apache Leader, last Indian resistance in the Southwest

Had a show, created many myths about the Wild West

Argued the frontier shaped American national character, philosopher