Westward Expansion
Nickname for farmers on the Plains
The treaty that gave Native Americans limited land (reservations) that they could keep "forever."
What is Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Jobs were this kind of factor for new immigrants.
The name for apartment buildings divided into small rooms with poor living conditions
What is tenements?
The initial group of farmers who wanted to boost farm profits and reduce the prices of the railroad.
Who is the National Grange?
The act that gave 160 acres of land out west to heads of households who agreed to improve it.
What is the Homestead Act?
Who is Sitting Bull?
War and lack of land were this kind of factor for new immigrants.
What is push factor?
What is settlement houses?
Farmers wanted the ______ election of senators.
What is "direct"?
Grants of money and land given to railroad companies by the government.
What is subsidy?
Name of the American general who led the U.S. troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is George A. Custer?
A word to describe adapting a new culture while still maintaining some of your previous traditions.
What is acculturation?
The movement of population from farms to urban areas, or cities.
What is urbanization?
The presidential candidate who endorsed the Populists.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Name of the people who lined up for the Oklahoma Land Rush and the name of the people who arrived early.
What is Boomers & Sooners?
Name of the prophet who spread the word of Ghost Dance.
Who is Wovoka?
The only act in U.S. history to target by name a specific ethnic group.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Unlimited silver coinage.
What is "Free Silver"?
The name of the town where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
Historians consider this to be the most detrimental act towards Native Americans in U.S. history.
What is Dawes Act?
A word to describe anti-foreign sentiment.
What is nativism?
The name of the woman who created Hull House in 1889. She urged the government to act on the issues occurring in slum neighborhoods.
The name of the group that combined the farmers with the miners and factory workers.
Who is the Farmer's Alliance?