Pot Luck
Who won the election of 1896
McKinley
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What party did president McKinley belong to?
Republican Party
What where the two main things that transformed the Great Plains?
Railroads and mechanization of agriculture
What did Natives tribes primarily hunt?
Bison
What was the nickname for Oklahoma?
Sooner State
What is the term used for the gold seekers who streamed into the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory?
"Fifty Niner"
Who was considered "Queen of the Populists"?
Mary Elizabeth Lease
What's was a negative effect of the increased production of crops?
Deflation
How did the white settlers affect Native American life?
They undermined their culture, forced them into reservations, and spread disease
The Gold Standard Act
What four states did women gain the right to vote in?
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho
Who where the two presidential candidate in 1896?
McKinley and Bryan
Wich law allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land (a quarter-section) by living on it for five years?
The Homestead Act
The Fetterman massacre led to this battle which was one of the few Indian triumphs in the plains wars
The Battle at Little Big Horn
Wich development of infrastructure led to the massacre of Buffalo?
What where the three minerals mined by the miners?
Gold, Quartz, and Silver
Who was considered the "president maker"?
Marus Alonzo Hanna
Name 3 of the 6 newly admitted states during 1889-1890
North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming
How did white people force Natives to assimilate into their culture?
Christians would run school and education systems
Oliver H Kelley organized this group who enhanced the life of isolated farmers.
The Grange
How did mining improve America?
The creation of new towns, economic booms, and construction of railroads.
This famous Pullman Strike marcher was a wealthy Ohio quarry owner.
Jacob S. Coxey
Who wrote the frontier thesis which explained the frontier was closed?
Fredrick Jackson Turner
What caused the massacre in Sand Creek, Colorado?
400 Natives thought they where promised immunity