Headed West
Native American Experience
Farmers Problems
Farmers Solutions
100
This idea caused settlers to head west which pushed Native Americans off of their land.
What is manifest destiny?
100
These animals were important to Native Americans as they relied on them for food, clothes, shelter, tools, etc.
What are buffalo?
100
This caused and agricultural surplus which cased the prices of crops to go down and farmers to fall into debt
What is overproduction?
100
This word refers to living in cities.
What is urban?
200
This is what we call the following reasons people want to leave the east:
- Expensive farmland
-Civil War Displacement
- Race and ethnicity based discrimination
What are push factors
200
Colonel Custer led a raid to forcibly relocated Native Tribes to a reservation. Underestimating the tribes size he split his troops causing him and his troops to be immediately killed.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
200
This group charged farmers high shipping rates
Who were the railroad monopolies?
200
This word refers to living far outside the cities.
What is rural?
300
The construction of this by primarily Chinese Immigrants allowed for easier travel west.
What is the transcontinental railroad
300
A volunteer army led a surprise attack on a Naive camp killing hundreds of Natives, mostly women, children, and the elderly.
What is the Sand-Creek Massacre?
300
This group charged high interest rates on loans making it impossible for farmers to pay them back.
Who were the bankers
300
This law was created by the federal government to regulate railroad shipping prices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
400
Offered 160 acres of land for free if they agreed to farm on it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Fearing the Ghost Dance would start a Native uprising. U.S. troops went to the reservations to confiscate their weapons. During the confiscation a gun was fired causing the troop to open fire and kill hundreds of Native Americans.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
400
This group charges the farmers to much money to sell their products.
Who were the middlemen?
400
This monetary system would introduce silver into circulation leading to inflation which would raise the prices of crops and benefit farmers.
What is bi-metalism
500
Offered states money and land if they opened up a public college that focused on agriculture and mechanics.
What is the Morrill Land-Grant Act?
500
This law would grant citizenship to Native Americans who assimilated and adopted U.S. culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
This monetary system was backed by only one metal and kept the farmer poor and in debt.
What was the gold standard?
500
The Populist Party created this campaign to advocate for bi-metalism.
What is the Free Silver Movement
600
This term describes the hand off approach the government took towards economics.
What is laissez-faire
600
These were government schools that forced native american children to assimilate and adopt the dominate culture.
What were boarding schools?
600
This refers to the move from agrarian society towards more factory and machine work.
What is industrialization?
600
This group worked together and purchased materials in bulk to reduce farming cost.
Who were the Farmers Alliance?