Important Individuals
Former Civil War army officer wiped out at the Battle of Little Bighorn
George Custer
slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Americans that marked the end of the Native American wars in 1890
Wounded Knee Massacre
Mexican Cowboys
What famers wanted currency to be backed by
Silver & gold (Bimetalism)
Founder of the Patrons of Husbandry
Oliver Kelley
The term for the attempt to “Americanize” Indians
Assimilation
Act designed to aid in settlement of the west by providing 160 acres
Two reforms that populists were in favor of
Graduated income tax, voting by secret ballot, election of senators by the people
Sioux chief who was at Little Bighorn and later toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
Sitting Bull
The legislation that gave Indians land of their own rather than tribal land and aimed to get them to farm
Dawes Act
Overgrazing, drought and barbed wire brought an end to this
Famous speech by William Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold
Populist leader who ran for president in 1896
William Jennings Bryan
Ceremony that worried government officials and missionaries. It was said that by doing this the past glories of Native American life would return
Ghost dance
Movement of black families from the South to Kansas
Exoduster Movement
Patrons of Husbandry AKA
Historian who emphasized the importance of the frontier in shaping American character
Fredrick Jackson Turner
Native American shaman who started the Ghost Dance ritual
Wovoka
Legislation to sell western land in order to fund land grant colleges
Morrill act
William Jennings Bryan’s Republican opponent in the election of 1896
William McKinley