Chapter 16
Period 6: 1865-1898
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Key Concepts
6.1 – The rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the
U.S. economy and environment, and renewed debates over U.S. national identity.
6.2 – The emergence of an industrial culture in the United States led to both greater opportunities for, and restrictions on, immigrants, minorities, and
women.
6.3 – The “Gilded Age” witnessed new cultural and intellectual movements in tandem with political debates over economic and social policies.
Learning Objectives
Identity – ID-2, ID-5, ID-6
Work, Exchange, and Technology – WXT-3, WXT-5, WXT-6, WXT-7
America and the World – WOR-3
Politics and Power – POL-3, POL-6
Peopling – PEO-2, PEO-3, PEO-4, PEO-5, PEO-6
Environment and Geography – ENV-5
Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture – CUL-3, CUL-5, CUL-6
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Guided Reading
1. Myth and Reality
6. Economic Importance of the Buffalo
2. Caste System
7. Indian Weaknesses
3. Genizaros
8. Taos Indian Rebellion
4. Mestizos
9. Hispanic Resistance
5. Plains Indians
10. Decline of Mission Society
11. Californios
19. Homestead Act
12. Declining Status of Hispanics
20. Government Assistance
13. Racism
21. Limited Social Mobility
14. Building the Transcontinental Railroad
22. Racially Stratified Working Class
15. Establishment of “Chinatowns”
23. Life Cycle of a Mining Boom
16. Anti-Coolie Clubs
24. Comstock Lode
17. Chinese Exclusion Act
25. Gender Imbalance
18. Chinese Resistance
26. Mexican Origins
27. Chisholm Trail
35. Frederick Jackson Turner
28. Long Drive
36. Turner’s Frontier Thesis
29. Political Gains for Women
37. Psychological Loss
30. “Rocky Mountain School”
38. “Concentration” Policy
31. Myth of the Cowboy
39. Poorly Administered Reservations
32. Romantic Image of the West
40. Decimation of the Buffalo
33. Mark Twain
41. Indian Resistance
34. Frederic Remington
42. Sand Creek Massacre
43. “Indian Hunting”
51. Assimilation
44. Little Bighorn
52. Key Role of the Railroad
45. George A. Custer
53. Barbed Wire
46. Chief Joseph
54. Drought
47. Geronimo
55. Hard Times for Farmers
48. “Ghost Dance”
56. Consequences of Overproduction
49. Wounded Knee
57. Farmers’ Grievances
50. Dawes Severalty Act
58. Isolation