10.1
What was name of the location that a major native battle occured?
Wounded Knee.
What two places did the Transcontinental Railroad connect?
East and West.
What is the Spoils System?
It gave political positions to supporters/friends rather than those who are qualified.
Founder of the Grange.
Oliver H Kelley
Battle between Crazy horse and Custer.
Battle of Little Bighorn.
What is the attack on Cheyenne and Arapaho in Colorado called?
Sand Creek Massacre.
What is the Homestead Act?
160 acres of land to any white settlers willing to move west for 5 years.
Policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold.
Another name for populist party?
Peoples party.
What are Exodusters?
Former slaves settling in the west.
What act did the government try to Americanize the Natives with?
Dawes General allotment act.
What was the last place to be settled on by settlers?
Great Plains.
Who was considered a hero of the Civil War but a disappointing president?
Ulysses S Grant.
What was something that "mounted" during buisness for farmers?
Debt.
Money not backed by gold or silver.
Fiat Money.
What two developments threatened American Indians?
1. New Diseases
2. Mass killing of Buffalo
What are Oklahoma Sooners?
What did government officials accept?
Bribes.
What did the Grange movement do for farmers?
It helped them provide new education for farming techniques and called for a regulation on railroad prices.
Chief of the Nez Perce tribe in Idaho.
Chief Joseph.
Who led the Souix tribe?
Crazy horse and Sitting Bull.
What did the Jim Crow laws do?
It targeted African Americans and Chinese immigrants in the West.
What is the Civil service act?
It made people wanting to be government officials take and exam.
What did the Farmers alliance do?
It connected farmers in the South and West.
To join mainstream culture.
Assimilate.