Topic 3 Part 1
Employee of the US Department of Agriculture who worked to improve the lives of farmers and the agricultural industry
Oliver H. Kelley
Method of ranching in which the rancher allowed their livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland.
Open-range system
Leader of the Sand Creek Massacre
John Chivington
Government departments and their non-elected employees.
Civil service
Chief of all the Lakota Sioux bands in the 1860s.
Sitting Bull
1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots.
Dawes General Allotment Act
Law that saw reform to civil service and awarded jobs based on merit
Pendleton Civil Service Act
"The People's Party."
Populist Party
African American settlers to the West following the Civil War
Exodusters
Populist leader who ran for President three times.
William Jennings Bryan
Currency not backed by gold, silver, or other metals.
Fiat money
Battle that ended Indian resistance.
Wounded Knee
Public lands where Native Americans were required to live by the federal government.
Reservations
Became President of the United States in 1896.
William McKinley
1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to people willing to live on and cultivate it for five years.
Homestead Act
Group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from white landowners.
Las Gorras Blancas
Policy of designating monetary units based on their value in gold.
Gold standard
Leader of the 7th Cavalry during the Battle of Little BigHorn
George Armstrong Custer
Practice of politicians giving and receiving jobs and benefits based on connections rather than merit.
Spoils system
1864 incident in which Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians; some of whom were under US Army protection.
Sand Creek Massacre
Absorbed into the main culture of a society.
Assimilated
Farmers’ organization formed following the Civil War.
Grange
Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads.
Land grants
Network of farmers’ organizations that worked together to reform economics and politics in the late 19th century.
Farmers' Alliance
Self-appointed law officers.
Vigilantes