APUSH – BLANCHARD
CHAPTER 18 KEY TERMS
NAME ______________
AP TOPICS COVERED:
14. Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century
Expansion and development of western railroads
Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians
Government policy toward American Indians
Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West
Environmental impacts of western settlement
Memorized Material:
Less than Magnificent Seven: Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin
Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley
Court Cases: Munn v. Illinois (1877)
The Wabash Case (1886)
Directions: Your HANDWRITTEN chapter outline is due ________________. It should contain all the
following key terms HIGHLIGHTED. Do not simply list the key terms and definitions.
Chapter 17 Review
End of Reconstruction
Pacific Railway Act of 1862 (593)
Union Pacific Railroad (593)
Central Pacific Railroad (593)
Burlingame Treaty
Chinese Exclusion Act
Promontory Point
Golden spike
Pennsylvania Railroad (594)
National Mineral Act
Tweed Ring scandal
Liberal Republicans
Horace Greeley (595)
Election of 1872
Depression of 1873
Whiskey Ring Scandal (596)
Samuel J. Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes (597)
Electoral Commission
“Home Rule”
Compromise of 1877
CHAPTER 18 KEY TERMS
Five Civilized Tribes
No Man’s Land
Homesteaders
land rush
Curtis Act
Manifest destiny
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Prospectors
Indian Wars
Colorado Volunteers
Sand Creek Massacre
Great Sioux War
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer
Little Big Horn
Custer’s Last Stand
Nez Perce
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
“Helldorado”
Coeur d’Alene Strike
Western Confederation of Miners
Mormons
US v. Reynolds
Edmunds Act
Edmunds-Tucker Act
Gadsden Purchase
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Red Robber of the Rio Grande
Cortina’s War
Las Gorras Blancas
Hispanic-American Alliance
Texas Longhorns
lynching
Range Wars
Homestead Act of 1862
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick’s reaper
Morrill Act of 1862
Timer Culture Act (1973)
National Reclamation Act (1902)
General Land Revision Act (1891)
Forest Management Act (1897)
Rocky Mountain School
William F. Cody
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Omaha Act (1882)
“A Century of Dishonor”
Dawes Act (1887)
Ghost Dance
Wounded Knee
DATES TO KNOW
*denotes decade only
_______Reaper invented
_______Range Wars*
_______Homestead Act
_______Dawes Severity Act
_______Steel Plow invented
_______Tweed Ring scandal
_______Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
_______ “A Century of Dishonor”
_______Worchester v. Georgia
_______End of Reconstruction
_______Indian Wars*
_______Chinese Exclusion Act
_______Nonintercourse Acts*
_______Wounded Knee
_______Indian Removal Act
_______Golden Spike
_______Gadsden Purchase
_______Invention of barbed wire
_______Treaty of Greenville*
_______Morrill Land Grant Act
_______Little Big Horn
_______Curtis Act
_______Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
_______Pacific Railroad Act
_______Morrill Tariff
_______Closing of the range*
_______Seward’s Folly