name the act/ law
1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to people willing to live on &cultivate it form 5 years. Claimants were required to "improve" the plot by building a dwelling.
Homestead act
Farmer's organization that formed after the Civil War to promote the economic & political well-being of the community & agriculture. It is the oldest American agricultura advocacy group with a national scope.
What is grange?
Network of farmers' organizations that worked for political & economic reforms in the late 1800s.
Farmers alliance
1890 confrontation between the US Calvary & Sioux that marked the end of Native resistance. Part of the 7th Calvary surrounded the camp with 4 mounted machine guns & tried to disarm the Lakota. A gun went off during this, beginning a fight that ended with 250-300 Natives murdered & 25 soldiers dead.
Wounded knee masacre
A leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, he led during a time where his people were forcibly removed from Northeast Oregon to a reservation in the Idaho territory Conflicts with settlers caused a fighting retreat to Canada.They never made it & were cornered in Northern Montana, just 40 miles from the border.
Cheif joseph
A series of laws, to regulate rising fare prices or railroad & grain elevator companies after the American Civil War, were passed in Midwestern states (Minnesota, lowa Wisconsin,& Illinois) in the late 1860s-1870s.It was to make prices more favorable to small, rural farmers.
Granger laws
Established in the US during the early 19th mid 20t* c., their primary objective was "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children into European-American culture. These schools denigrated Native American culture & made the children give up their language & religion.
Indian/ boarding schools
Land designated by the federal government for buildings, schools,roads, or railroads.
Land grants
1876 Battle in which the Sioux defeated US Army troops. The 7th Calvary Regiment of the US was defeated by the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, & Arapaho tribes from June 25t-26* along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Reservation in the Southeastern Montana territory. Known as "Custard's Last Stand," he went up against Crazy Horse & Chief gall
Battle of Little Bighorn
A Democrat & Populist leader who ran unsuccessfully three times for the US Presidency.During his career as a lawyer, politician, & speaker, he fought for reforms such as the Income tax, prohibition & women’s suffrage
William Jennings Bryant
An 1887 law that divided native reservation land into private family plots.As a result, over 90 million acres of tribal land were stripped from Native Americans & sold to non-natives
What is Dawes act
Gold standard
what is? Policy of designating monetary units in terms of its value in gold; it made the standard unit of account in 1900 in the US.
the Louisiana Purchase & fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, & a belief in "Manifest Destiny
1864 incident in which the Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne & Arapaho Indians, some who were under US Army protection. A 675-man force of the 3d Colorado Calvary killed & mutilated up to 500 Natives, with 2/3's of them being women & children.
Sand creek massacre
politician from New York who was a leader of the Tammany Hall political organization, critic of civil service,master of "machine politics"(power for personal gain via patronage & honest graft). Honest graft is the buying & selling of land that he knew would later be needed for public projects.
George Washington plunkett
US statutes effective July 2'd, 1862, that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in the US states, using the proceeds from sales of federal land largely/entirely taken from indigenous tribes through treaty, cessation, or seizure.
what is Morrill land grant act
Pools (railroads)
What is
Associations or competition railroads. They are essentially contracts between rival railroads where, to prevent competition, their business & money received is divided among the companies at fixed percentages.
By 1890, many American business leaders looked overseas in search for new markets & investment opportunities.Idealism emerges where American civilization & Protestant Christianity could "uplift backwards peoples." The desire for a strong & effective Navy came about, & theWestern Frontier was said to be close to closing.Pres. Harrison began to modernize & rationalize American diplomats (meaning more active foreign policy & planning). Growing interests in the Pacific & Latin america would later lead to imperialism
Expansion of trade
A war chief & important spiritual leader who became the 1" ever chief of all the Lakota Sioux bands in the 1860s.After surrendering to the Army in 1881, he lived on a reservation where he was killed by Indian Police sent to arrest him
Sitting bull
Agrarian Society
Agrarian Society- Any community whose economy is based on producing & maintaining crops & farmland.In this society, cultivating the land is the primary source or wealth.Existing as far back as 10,000 years ago.In this society has been the most common torn or socioeconomic organization for much of recorded human history.
A US Federal law designed to regulate the railroad industry & its monopolistic practices.The act required railroad rates to be "reasonable & just", but it did not empower the government to fix specific rates
What is interstate commerce act?
Canals, stagecoaches, railroads made it possible for thousands of People to settle in the West. Advanced gun devices allowed battles to be swayed in favor Of the settlers. Communications advances allowed the spread of correspondence to go from months to minutes over time
Improved farming tech
Railroad A rail link between the Eastern & Western US. A 1,912 mile continuos railroad line constructed between 1863-1869 that connected the existing Eastern US rail network at Council Bluffs, lowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
Transcontinental railroad
A speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former US Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896 - In the speech, Bryan supported bimetallism or "free silver," in which he believed would bring the nation prosperity. He declared the gold standard, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." This address catapulted him to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination & is considered one of the greatest political speeches in American History.
Cross of gold
Western settlers were spurred onward by the development of the Transcontinental Railroad, a major byproduct of Industrialization.The expansion & immigration of the late 1800s merged with this industrialization to promote the growth of the American Urban Society.
Industrialization causing W.E