American Indians
Specific Areas set aside by the government for Native American use.
Reservations
Government Act that offered farm plots to anyone willing to live on the land for 5 years, dig a well, & build a road
Homestead Act
The Idea that politicians would be awarded government jobs to loyal party workers
Spoil System
Political Party known as the "people's party"
Populist
The area west of the Mississippi was known as what?
The Great American Desert
The adopting of culture & civilization that is different than your own is what?
Assimilation
Self-appointed lawmakers who sought justice on the new frontier
Vigilantes
The government uses gold as the basis of a nation's currency & created paper money is known as what?
Gold Standard
The people's party mainly had their interests alined against.
Banks and Monopolys
What was an exoduster?
African American who moved west
Religious revival thought to banish settlers & restore buffalo to the plains
Ghost Dance Movement
A system of cattle ranching where cattle graze an open landscape & are herded into towns in the spring
Open-Range
Currency not backed by anything.
Greenbacks
Government organization that oversaw railroads & government regulation on transportationIn
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
What government agency oversees U.S. relations with American Indians?
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Massacre that killed over 300 Sioux during a government attempt to take firearms.
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Towns that sprung up during the gold rush & then shut down when mining stopped.
Boomtown
What law created a civil service commission that required an exam for a job to reduce the spoil system?
Pendleton Act
Movement led by Oliver H. Kelley that sought to bring farming education & government regulation to the nation.
The Grange
What sport did Bill Pickett Invent?
Bulldogging
What law encouraged American Indians to become property owners, farmers, & end tribal land-holding?
Dawes Act
The railroad that connected the east & west of the United States
Transcontinental Railroad
Senator who would plunder millions of dollars from New York in Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
Gifted Orator who spoke to the common man & tried to run for President
William Jennings Bryan
General Custer was defeated at what?
Battle at the Little Big Horn