The American West
This 1862 act offered 160 acres of land to settlers who agreed to live on and improve it for five years.
The Homestead Act of 1862. This is a write out question. Be able to explain the impact based on the facts. Why did people move west because of this?
At this 1876 battle, a combined force of Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho defeated Colonel George Custer's 7th Cavalry.
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
These poorly constructed, overcrowded, and unsanitary apartment buildings were the primary housing for poor immigrants in industrial cities.
What are tenements?
This scandal involved a fake construction company created by Union Pacific Railroad insiders to skim millions in fraudulent government payments.
What was the Crédit Mobilier scandal?
This group, made up primarily of struggling farmers, miners, and laborers, formed the base of the People's Party.
Who were the supporters of the Populists?
This territory, in the present-day state of Oklahoma, was originally set aside as the destination for tribes forcibly relocated by the government.
What is Indian Territory?
This spiritual movement, which prophesied the return of the buffalo and the disappearance of white settlers, was a major cause of the Wounded Knee conflict.
What is the Ghost Dance?
These organizations controlled city governments by trading services, jobs, and favors for votes, often through corrupt means.
What are political machines?
A scandal during the Grant administration where distillers and politicians conspired to defraud the government of millions in liquor tax revenue.
What was the Whiskey Ring?
Key reforms demanded by the Populists included the direct election of senators, a graduated income tax, and government ownership of railroads.
What were the reforms of the Populist Party?
This 1887 act aimed to assimilate Native Americans by breaking up reservations and distributing land to individual families.
What is the Dawes Act?
This 1890 event, where the 7th Cavalry killed over 250 Lakota men, women, and children, is considered the tragic end of the major "Indian Wars."
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre? This is a write out question. Explain the situation, causes, and consequences.
This group formed the main voting bloc for political machines, trading their loyalty for essential services like jobs, housing aid, and legal help.
Who were immigrants?
This political cartoonist for Harper's Weekly became famous for his relentless cartoons that helped bring down Boss Tweed.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This former Nebraska congressman and Democratic nominee 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Its expansion across the plains divided tribal lands, disrupted migration patterns, and accelerated the destruction of the buffalo herds.
What is the Railroad?
What is the Buffalo.
The most infamous Democratic political machine in U.S. history, it controlled New York City politics for decades.
What is Tammany Hall?
Passed after President Garfield's assassination, this 1883 law created the civil service system, requiring exams for many government jobs.
What is the Pendleton Act?
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
What is the "Cross of Gold" speech?
As Native Americans came in contact with greater numbers of settlers the United States wanted to move Natives from their homelands to smaller sections of reserved land which are now known as?
Reservations
"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
~William Jennings Bryan, 1896
According to this excerpt, which idea did William Jennings Bryan promote?
Bimetallism/Free Silver
William Tweed or Boss Tweed. Be able to understand a political cartoon about him.
Before Civil Service reform Presidents and other elected members of the government often awarded jobs in the government to people who patronized their campaigns. This led to corruption and fraud. This system was ended by the Pendleton Act.
What is the Spoils System?
This group of people were the primary supporters of the Populist Party.
Farmers of the South and West, those who supported "Free Silver" (Both populist and some Democrats).