Populism
Native Americans
Westward expansion
Economics
Combo
100
The year that a populist ran for as a Democrat and lost
1896
100
Settlers tried to teach Native Americans this language
English
100
Law that gave land to railroads
Pacific Railway Act
100
Name one reason farming was difficult for settlers
They had to build houses (homestead), they had to plow through tough sod, droughts and storms
100
William Jennings Bryan and the Cross of Gold speech
200
Populists wanted a work day that was this long
8 hours
200
Which act broke up reservations into individual plots
Dawes Act
200
Which city saw its population increase due to the gold rush?
California
200
What was one thing that improved farming?
Farm mechanization (new technology) and better knowledge of agriculture
200
Historian who claimed the frontier played a key role in shaping America
Frederick Jackson Turner
300
Populists were mostly located here
The Western states
300
Name one massacre that occurred to Native Americans
Wounded Knee & Sand Creek
300
Mining technique learned from the Spanish
Placer mining
300
People who supported the gold standard were called
Goldbugs
300
The nickname for the stereotypical idea of the west as a land of gunslingers and outlaws
The "Wild" West
400
An income tax where the rich pay more is called this
A progressive income tax
400
This general lost the Battle of Little Bighorn
Custer
400
People who owner large ranches
Cattle barons
400
William McKinley supported this tax on foreign goods, but farmers opposed them because they made farm equipment more expensive
Tariffs
400
This job became a national symbol for America
Cowboy
500
Populists wanted the government to own this
The railroads
500
Indian chief who won a victory at Little Bighorn and was killed at Wounded Knee
Sitting Bull
500
The idea that it was the divine right of the US to expand westward
Manifest Destiny
500
What cause the cattle boom to end?
Farmers began using barbed wire fence in the open range
500
A book written to protest America's treatment of Natives
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson