The system that put Native Americans on reservations
What is The Reservation System?
The direction that the United States expanded in during this time period
What is west?
The chance of finding this mineral lead thousands to the west
What is gold?
Prominent female member of the populists
Who is Mary Ellen lease?
The form of currency favored by the Democrats
What is silver?
The act that got rid of reservations
What is The Dawes Severalty Act?
Construction of this was a major part in establishing western territories
What is the Trans-Continental Railroad?
Purchasing of this put many farmers into substantial debt
What is farming machinery?
The man who ran for president from jail and still polled a million votes
Who is Eugene Debs?
Democratic candidate in the 1896 electon
Who is William Bryan?
A leader of the Native Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Who is Sitting bull?
The act that gave 160 acres of "free" land to Americans willing to venture west
What is The Homestead Act?
The strike by steel factory workers in Pennsylvania
What is The Homestead Strike?
The populists thought these things were corrupt
What is The Government, Wall Street, The Railroad?
The economic policy favored by the Democrats
What is inflation?
The intent to eradicate The Ghost Dance led to
What is The Wounded Knee massacre?
Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across North America (go west).
The farmers movement that predated the populists
What is the Grange?
The railroad worker strike over cut wages, organized by who? (two part question)
What is The Pullman Strike? Who is Eugene Debs?
The group of people in cities fearful of the price of the dollar dropping by half
Who are factory workers?
The names of the Plains Indian tribes
What is Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, Apache, Arapaho?
The essay written by Fredrick Turner
What is The Significance of the Frontier in American History?
In cases of extreme need, farmers would do this instead of selling their crops.
What is burn them for fuel?
The goal of Jacob S. Coxey
What is to propose a new road building program to solve the unemployment problem in America?
The depression/economic state that led to such a monetary-focused presidential election
What is The Panic of 1893?