US History Unit 3 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
  2. 8. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
  3. 9. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
  4. 10. The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
  5. 16. General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
  6. 17. A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
  7. 18. Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
  8. 19. Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US
  9. 21. These places were created in order to forcibly assimilate Indian children to white culture. They cut their hair, converted them to Christianity, forced them to change their language and used various other ways to make Indian children act like white Americans.
  10. 23. The system that allotted land with designated boundaries to Native American tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887. Within these reservations, most land was used communally, rather than owned individually.
  11. 24. Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages. They also drove their competitors out of business by selling their products cheaper than it cost to produce it. Then when they controlled the market, they hiked prices high above original price.
Down
  1. 1. a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
  2. 3. 1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor
  3. 4. A party organization that recruits voter loyalty with tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity
  4. 5. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  5. 6. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
  6. 7. southerners who wanted to work with the northern republicans during reconstruction
  7. 11. Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
  8. 12. Process of a person or group adopting the culture, language, and traditions of the larger group in society (i.e immigrants and Native Americans in us history.)
  9. 13. the growth of cities
  10. 14. An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
  11. 15. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
  12. 20. Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
  13. 22. 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance