Vocab 1
What is a Bison?
A large wild ox with horns that point to the back.
What is a farm?
A place where crops are grown or animals are raised.
What is the Dawes Act?
The act that allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
What year did the Congress pass the Homestead Act?
1862.
What was the Populist Party platform?
The Platform of the Democratic Party.
Another term for the Dakota people or their language.
What is a soddy?
An alternative shelter when wood or stone was scarce.
What year did the Spanish bring horses to New Mexico?
1598.
What two companies raced to lay railroad track?
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
How were the railroads taking advantages of farmers?
They charged excessive prices for shipping and storage.
What is a great plain?
A high plateau of grassland that is located in parts of the United States and Canada in North America.
What is a settler?
A person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.
What was the result of the Custer's Last Stand?
The results was that Colonel Custer and his friend all ended up dead.
What was Grangers original purpose?
To provide a social outlet and on education for the isolated farm families.
What type of farms were created in light of farmers in debt?
The Bonanza Farms.
What is a Native American person?
A member of any of the indigenous people of the North, Central, and South America, especially those indigenous to what is now the continental U.S.
What is Agriculture?
The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the sail or the growing of crops and the leading of animals to provide food, wood and other products.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramle?
The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
What caused the panic of 1893?
3 million people became unemployed.
How did the new inventions change farming in the west?
The new inventions made farming in the West faster and more efficient.
Who is a sitting bull?
A Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against the United States government policies.
What is the Homestead Act?
Serval laws in United States b which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land by the public demain, typically called a nameslead.
What was the government's policy towards Native American land?
There were treaties made that designated specific boundaries for each Natives American tribes the land.
What was the government's policy towards Native Americans land?
There were treaties made that designed specific boundaries for each Native American tribes the land.
What type of settlers were called Exodusters?
The African Americans who moved from the post Reconstruction South to Kansas.