The New South
Westward Expansion
Transforming The West
Vocabulary
The South and West
100
demanded lower prices for supplies, rail freight, and low interest bank loans.
What is The Farmers' Alliance?
100
They viewed themselves as part of nature and considered the land sacred.
Who are the Native Americans?
100
Way of identifying cattle.
What is branding?
100
enough to meet a need.
What is adequate?
100
Used violence and intimidation to limit African American freedom.
What is the KKK?
200
The key transportaton component of industrialization.
What is the railroad?
200
Small areas of land given to Native Americans to live on.
What are reservations?
200
It linked the East with West.
What is transcontinental railroad?
200
Any of the main parts of a whole.
What is component?
200
Guaranteed citizenship for African Americans.
What is Fourteenth Amendment?
300
Crops grown for sale.
What is cash crops?
300
Chief of the Nez Perces Indian tribe.
Who is Chief Joseph?
300
Gave private builders wide stretches of land, alternating on each side of the track route.
What are land grants?
300
Laws that limited African Americans freedom.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
This crop continued to dominate agriculture in the South after the Civil War.
What is cotton?
400
The most important gain of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.
What is Education?
400
Battle with Native Americans after performing the Ghost Dance.
What is Battle of Wounded Knee?
400
Property not fenced in.
What is open-range?
400
Gave settlers 160 acres of land for five years that they must make improvements on to gain ownership.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Court case legalized segregation with separate but equal ruling.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Gave African Americans the right to ride trains and use public facilities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
500
White man view of the land.
What is source of wealth?
500
African Americans who migrated to Oklahoma and Kansas and founded several all-black towns.
Who are Exodusters?
500
Self appointed law enforcers.
What are vigilantes?
500
Threatened the livelihoods of southern farmers.
What is boll weevil?
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