What most farmers complained about in the late 1800s that was still an issue between Northerners and Southerners
What are high tariffs?
100
This invention led to the end of the cattle boom. (Hint: Think Joseph Glidden)
What is barbed wire?
100
The only battle we studied that was a Native American victory
What is Little Bighorn?
100
By forming this type of group, farmers pooled their resources to purchase new machinery and supplies
What is the Grange?
100
The political platform of the Populist Party
What is the Omaha Platform?
200
How farmers thought that free silver would benefit them
What is inflation?
200
This technological advancement allowed farmers to plant crops in the Midwest by enabling them to cut through the tough prairie sod.
What is John Deere's steel plow?
200
The law that Helen Hunt Jackson helped inspire
What is the Dawes (Severalty) Act?
200
A system is which farmers borrowed money against their crops, thereby slipping further and further into debt.
What is the crop-lien system?
200
Another name for the Populist Party
What is the People's Party?
300
During the 1896 presidential campaign, this Democratic candidate captured the Populist nomination.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
300
another complaint by the farmer besides unfair railroad rates
What are low crop prices?
300
The significance of the gold spike that was driven in Promontory, Utah in 1869
What is the completion of a transcontinental railroad uniting east and west?
300
A monetary policy that bases the US dollar on silver as well as on gold
What is bimetallism?
300
What the Native Americans were forced to give up in the Dawes Act
What is their nomadic way of living?
400
The most important goal of the Populist Party (Hint: has to do with the government)
What is regulation of big business by government?
400
The nickname "the Sooner State" applies to which state and for what reason?
What is Oklahoma because of those who could get to the state "sooner" got the best land?
400
This sparked the last notable armed conflict between US troops and Native Americans
What is the Ghost Dance?
400
Farmers wanted government regulation of business. The type of government that businesses favored was just the opposite. (Hint: the term for no government regulation of business).
What is laissez-faire?
400
The Native American who said, " I am tired...I will fight no more forever."
Who is Chief Joseph?
500
The major issue of the Election of 1896
What is currency?
500
3 parts of the Omaha Platform
What is free silver, a graduated income tax, and government regulation of RRs?
500
This difference between Native Americans and settlers is the main reason why many land agreements between Native Americans and settlers fell apart
What is having different ideas about land ownership?
500
The first legislation passed to regulate businesses, particularly railroads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
The speech given by William Jennings Bryan to the Democratic Convention