Cultures Clash on the Prairie
The vast grassland extending through the central portion of the United States where many Native American tribes lived.
What are the Great Plains?
The primary goal of the Dawes Act.
What is to assimilate Native Americans into white culture?
A major cause for the rise of the Populist Party.
What is economic hardship among farmers?
Agreement between the United States and Native American tribes intended to bring peace but was later broken
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
African American settlers who moved from the South to the Great Plains after the Civil War.
What are Exodusters?
The Democratic Party Presidential nominee for the election of 1896.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
The violent event in 1890 where the U.S. Army killed hundreds of unarmed Native Americans.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Granted land ownership of property to farmers after five years of improvement.
What is the Homestead Act?
The significance of the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliances in the development of the Populist Party.
What is the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliances helped farmers band?
The process aimed at absorbing Native Americans into white culture, often through policies like the Dawes Act.
What is assimilation?
Provided federal land to states to help finance colleges focused on agriculture and the mechanical arts
What is the Morrill Act?
The speech given by William J. Bryan at the Democratic Convention July 8, 1896.
What is the "Cross of Gold" speech?
The Native American leader who resisted white settlement and played a major role in the resistance of the Plains tribes.
Who is Sitting Bull?
The major cause of the end of the open range and cattle drives on the Great Plains.
What is barbed wire and bad weather?
Opposing economic systems that divided Democrats and Republicans.
What are bimetallism and the gold-standard?