Acts of the West
This act gave 160 acres of land to settlers for FREE as long as they farmed for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act
This was the battle where General Custer LOST and the Sioux WON
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn
Who made up the populist party, Bankers or Farmers?
Who was the farmers
_________ was able to connect NYC to SF by only a weeks worth of travel
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Americans always move in what direction towards the frontier?
What is move west
Federal laws made it illegal for natives to leave or live off of this type of land?
What were reservations
Where were the Black Hills located (where the Sioux lived)
What is South Dakota?
Members of this club helped form the early populist party...
Who was the Grange (or Farmer's Alliance)
This helped people communicate quicker instead of writing letters
What is the telegraph
This area is known for being a rolling, treeless landscape in the center of the USA
What is the "Great Plains"
This act would monitor the shipping and handling costs that railroads would charge farmers to transport their goods.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
Regarded as the final tragedy of the Indian wars, this event saw the death of hundreds of Sioux Men, Women, and Children
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre
Populists believed that this type of metal should be combined with gold for a bimetallist system of currency.
What is silver
This was able to help make more tractors, plows, seeds, and tools for the farmers of the west
What is factories, industry, the North
If Irish, African American, and Soldier railroad workers built the railroad going west, who built the railroad going east?
Who were the Chinese
This Act tried to "Americanize" the native population by giving farmland and voting rights. However, all it did was rob them of their culture and give them worse land.
What was The Dawes Act
Americans purposefully killed millions of this type of animal to starve natives and deplete their culture?
What was the Buffalo or Bison
Who gave the famous "Cross of Gold" Speech which was a popular attack on the gold standard.
Who is William Jennings Bryan
This helped protect people's property from outlaws and became the more efficient weapon when compared to the musket
What is the Colt .45 Revolver
What were the 2 pulls of the American West?
What was the Mining Boom, and Railroad
This group wanted to provide a social club for farmers to share farming techniques with one another.
What was the Grange, Grangers, or Grange Movement
Who inspired Crazy Horse to rebel against the US Government and defeat Custer at Little Big Horn?
Who is Sitting Bull
Bimetallism would do what to the money supply?
What is increase it, or make more money available
_______ is the reason why America is Cattle Country
What is Barbed Wire
Where did the Transcontinental Railroad meet in the middle, or complete itself?
What is Utah, or the Golden Spike