Farmers
A term for African Americans who moved to Kansas in the late 1870s.
What are Exodusters?
A name for towns along the railroads for the marketing and shipping of cattle.
What are Cow Towns.
The Central Pacific Railroad hired many workers from this East Asian nation, alongside workers from many different backgrounds.
What is China?
This animal supplied the Plains Indians with almost all of their material needs.
What are buffalo/bison?
This "ism" means politics that aims to appeal to the common people.
What is populism?
This 1862 act gave 160 acres of free land to settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
A term for rich streaks of ore in between rock.
What are lodes?
The last spike of the Transcontinental Railroad was made of this precious metal.
What is Gold?
This Apache leader escaped federal forces several times and became a celebrity in the US for his exploits before finally surrendering to the US government in 1886.
Who is Geronimo?
This issue advocated by the populists was an attempt to increase inflation to help farmers who were in debt.
What is Free Silver?
A term for plains farmers.
What are Sodbusters.
A term for those who dealt out justice in lieu of proper law enforcement in boom towns.
What are vigilantes?
The railroads led to this change in time keeping.
What are Time Zones?
This creek was the site of site of bloodshed between the US army and Sioux Indians and marks the end of the armed conflicts between Native and White Americans.
What is Wounded Knee?
This organization sponsored social organizations, encouraged self-sufficiency and education for farmers, as well as cooperatives, in an attempt to remedy the situation of farmers in the late 19th century.
What was the National Grange?
This invention allowed for the ability to farm despite the thick sod of the plains.
What is the steel plow.
The mine at this peak famously drew people into the Colorado Rockies in 1858.
What is Pikes Peak?
The two railroad companies that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.
What were the Central Pacific Company and the Union Pacific Company?
This famous Sioux leader refused to sell the Black Hills and defeated Custer at the famous Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This network of organization, picking up where a previous farmer's self-help organization left off, proposed plans for the Federal Government to help farmers and fell apart due to regional differences and personality clashes.
What were the Farmers' Alliances?
This was the last plains state to be settled.
What is Oklahoma?
This boomtown, named after a southern state, sprang up by the Comstock Lode.
What is Virginia City?
This was the spot in Utah in which the Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
What is promontory point?
This act gave Native Americans land in an attempt to encourage them to become farmers and give up their traditional cultures.
What is the Dawes Act?
This man was the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party in 1896 who championed populists causes but lost due to the economy improving that year.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?