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policy of concentration ANS✔✔ -who: the policy of concentration applied to indigenous tribes that
resided in the West
-what: series of laws pushed forward by federal officials that put pressure on tribes to sign treaties
with the US government; it would limit them from living, hunting, and moving into concentrated
areas
-when: beginning in 1851
-where: pushed out native tribes in the West
-way: in a series of decades, this creates the idea of reservations, and is one of the big factors in the
decline of the native presence in America
William Cody ANS✔✔ -who: aka "Buffalo Bill"
-what: scout in American frontier army buffalo hunter for railroad crews who later on developed the
"Wild West and Rocky Mountain and Prairie Exhibition Show", becomes a character in a novel by
Edward Judson
-when: late 1800s
-where: put on in amphitheaters worldwide
-way: plays a role in the romanticization of Western culture, all while obscuring the reality of it
Ellen Olenska ANS✔✔ -who: one of the main characters in the Age of Innocence
-what: after coming back home from Europe, Ellen's élan and style would be at home in Europe, but
seem unduly passionate and unorthodox in New York City.
-when: the Gilded Age
-where: high society New York
-way: makes the main protagonist, Newland Archer, question
Ward McAllister ANS✔✔ -who: US lawyer and social leader, a close friend of Mrs. Caroline
Schermerhorn Astor
, 2024/2025
-what: originated the phrase "the Four Hundred" to designate New York City's society leaders
-when: the Gilded Age
-where: dictated leaders and wealthy families among New York society
-way: reinforced the idea of the New York Elite
scalawag ANS✔✔ -who: white Southerners
-what: they largely supported the Republican party and the process of Reconstruction
-when: the Reconstruction era
-where: terminology used among the South
-way: as an effect of their views, they were viewed as traitors to the South and its values, used in a
pejorative way
John Dunbar ANS✔✔ -who: protagonist; Lieutenant in Dancing with Wolves
-what: makes contact with the Sioux while at Fort Hays
-when: takes place in early 1860s
-where: takes place in modern-day Kansas
-way:
compromise of 1877 ANS✔✔ -who: involved presidential candidates Samuel Tilden (Democrat)
and Rutherford Hayes (Republican)
-what: an informal compromise was made to allow Hayes to win the election; the swing states
demanded a cabinet seat and that the Union leaves the South
-when: the election of 1876, and it takes several months in 1877 to resolve the election
-where: Florida, Lousiana, and South Carolina
-way: marked a major turning point in American political history, effectively ending the
Reconstruction Era and issuing in the system of Jim Crow
13th Amendment ANS✔✔ created by Lincoln, proposed in 1864, ratified in 1865; abolished slavery
and involuntary servitude
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