History Chapter 13
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Great Plains? | he grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States |
| Homestead Act? | 160 free acres of land free to anyone who would live and cultivate it for five years |
| exodusters? | African American who moved from the post-reconstruction South to Kansas in a great exodus |
| Sand Creek Massacre? | Chivington was treated as a hero in his hometown (denver) military official |
| Sitting Bull? | header of the Hunpapa Ssioux, never signed the treaty that restricted the natives to only their certain reservations |
| George Armstrong Custer? | george reported that gold was in the Black Hills, the gov offered to buy it, natives refused, tensions rose |
| assimilation? | native americans where expected to give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture |
| Dawes Act? | assimilation was passed by congress in the act. "americanize" the native americans. broke up reservations |
| Battle of Wounded knee? | brough the indian wars, an era, to a bitter end. sitting bull was going to be arrested but then his bodyguard got mad shots rang out and then killed a bunch of sioux |
| ghost dance? | dance that the natives did to try and get their life back |
| longhorn? | cattle brought by the spaniards, first to the west indies, and then to mexico. |
| James Butler "wild bill" Hickok and martha Jane Cannary? | both were models for the wester hero and cowboy life although they never were cowboys. stories |
| long drive? | overland transport of the animals often lasted about three months. |
| homesteaders? | settlers on the free land |
| Morrill Land Grant Acts? | 1862-1890 gave federal land to the states to help finance agriculture colleges |
| Hatch Act of 1877? | established agricultural experiment stations to communicate new developments in agriculture to farmers in every state |
| soddy? | sod home dug in the side of a hill |
| bonanza farms? | enormous single crop spreads of 10000 acres of more |
| Oliver Kelley Grange? | started the Patrons of Husbandry |
| grange? | prvode a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families. later changed to people working out the railroads |
| populism? 1892 founded | the movement of the people |
| bimetallism? | policy in which the government would give people either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks |
| William McKindley? | a conservative Ohioan nominated by the republican party |
| William Jenngs Bryan? | a former member of congress and nominated by the populist party |
| Cross of Gold speech? | delivered by Bryan and got he great reviews |
| Pacific Railroad Act? | granted huge government loans and land to the Union Pacific and central pacific railroads. |
| What did the Dawes Act enforce? | educating the Natives and soon they werent accepted on or out of the reservations |
| What about Buffolo? | railroad companies hired people (buffolo Bill) to kill as many boffalo as they could |
| about cowboys? | influenced by mexican culture. They rounded up cattle |
| importance of railroads? | had great effect when the gold rush happened in 1849 |
| What was the Chisholm trail? | major cattle route from San Antonio to kansas. invented by McCoy |
| how di the cattle fronteir end? | bad wheather and invention of barbed wire |
| effect of the Homstead act? | only 10% got to use it for what it was actually created for |
| what was the first national park? | yellowstone |
| how important were women? | a lot. pretty much did everything. i.e. sew clothes, cooked, cleaned, took care of kids |
| What was invented to help out farming on the prairie? then what was invented? | steel plow... reaper and the steel windmill |
| Bland-Allison Act? | added 2mil to 4 mill to the silver supply but that didnt help the farmers |
| what did farmers have to face? | deflation, debt, costly railroad prices, decided to reform |
| populist party? | was for the farmers to get rid of their debt. |
| what was the panic of 1893? | economy grew too fast. the railroads started to fail. then the stock market crashed |
| who where gold bugs and silverites? | GB: bankers and businessmen S: farmers and laboorers |
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