American History Since 1877 - HIST 122 Resource Guide

The term “Gilded Age” refers roughly to the last three decades of the nineteenth century.

Market condition in which there is only one seller of a certain commodity; by virtue of the long-run control over supply, such a seller is able to exert nearly total control over prices.

Series of conflicts between the Plains Indians and the US Army 1850–90, during the era of US westward expansion.

Without traditional royalty, America during the age of industry created vast wealth for a few men who would aspire to a semblance of royal standing. Historians have come to call them “barons” only in a figurative sense. These men defined the opulence of the Gilded Age, lasting roughly from 1870 to 1910.

Segregation, America's form of racial separation, was comparable in many ways to the apartheid system in South Africa but with somewhat different rules. Laws and practices enforced racial separation, as did the belief in white (European American) genetic and social superiority. Segregation as a social practice applied to numerous racially subordinated people in the United States, including people of Mexican, Chinese, and other immigrant origins whom European Americans identified as “colored.�

In US history, the belief that Americans had a providential mission to extend both their territory and their democratic processes westwards across the continent...

In U.S. history, the border area of settlement of Europeans and their descendants; it was vital in the conquest of the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific...

Major westward migration route in the USA used by pioneer settlers in the 19th century. The Trail, which covered some 3,200 km/2,000 mi and took six or seven months to travel...

Of people, geographical movements of individuals or groups for the purpose of permanently resettling...

American Indian religious revivalist movement that spread through the Plains Indians and other ethnic groups in the 1890s...