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APUSH AMSCO MAIN POINTS OF UNIT 6 (6.3 AND 6.4) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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APUSH AMSCO MAIN POINTS OF UNIT 6 (6.3 AND 6.4) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Definition 1 of 20
Henry Grady, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, advocated for the idea of having a "New
South" the growth of cities, the textile industry, and improved railroads symbolized the efforts
to create a "New South".
-Birmingham: became leading steel producer
-Memphis: center for South growing lumber industry
-Richmond, VA: Capital of nation's tobacco industry.
Southern Railroad companies worked to convert to the standard gauge rails that were used in
the North and West. Soon, the South was integrated into the national rail network.
Setbacks to the "New South" idea
American Indians on the frontier
Growth of Industry in the South
Cotton in the postwar south:
Definition 2 of 20
After the Civil War, the state of the South was in shambles. Some southern promoted the vision
of the "New South" which was the idea of a self-sufficient manufacturing economy with
capitalist values and a modern way of living (a society that resembled the North).
The Conservation Movement
"The New South" (CONTEXT)
Assimilationists
Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee
,Definition 3 of 20
A political and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and
animal species as well as their habitat for the future. The early conservation movement
included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil conservation, and sustainable forestry.
The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 and the Forest Management Act of 1897 withdrew federal
timberlands from development and regulated their use. While most conservationists believed
in scientific regulation of land some even believed that the only way to preserve the land was
to remove humans from the land.
Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee
Assimilationists
"The New South" (CONTEXT)
The Conservation Movement
Definition 4 of 20
Argument by historian Fredrick Jackson Turner says that argued the American character was
shaped by the existence of the frontier and the way Americans interacted and developed the
frontier, he felt that the frontier encouraged individualism and democracy. He believed that the
settling of the frontier was a form of evolution of building a civilization. This was a generation
of wave after wave of people who were colonizing the frontier. Turner feared that without the
promise of the frontier that America would follow the patterns of class division and social
conflict that was in Europe. However, most of US migration at this time wasn't people going to
the west but people migrating to the city from rural communities
Dawes Severalty Act
Turner's Frontier Thesis
Assimilationists
Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow laws
, Definition 5 of 20
A battle between the U.S. Army and the Dakota Sioux, in which several hundred Native
Americans and 29 U.S. soldiers died. Tensions erupted violently over two major issues: the
Sioux practice of the "Ghost Dance," which was a movement in which the Sioux tried to fight
back against Americans in their region which the U.S. government had outlawed, and the
dispute over whether Sioux reservation land would be broken up because of the Dawes Act.
"The New South" (CONTEXT)
Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee
The Conservation Movement
Assimilationists
Definition 6 of 20
-Explain the causes and effects of the settlement of the West from 1877 to 1898
Cotton in the postwar south:
Learning Objective (6.3)
Responses to Segregation
Learning Objective (6.4)
Definition 7 of 20
-Atlanta Compromise
Booker T Washington:
Learning Objective (6.3)
Learning Objective (6.4)
Responses to Segregation
Attempts to Organize
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