Category 1
This group supported government ownership of railroads, opposed the gold standard, and supported Bryan for President in 1896
Who are the Populists
Who are the Native Americans? (Indians)
the absorption of people into the dominant culture
What is assimilation?
Movement of settlers westward onto the Great Plains cause this series of conflicts between 1860 and 1890.
What are the Indian Wars? (American Indian)
The famous route cowboys followed to drive their cattle north in order to ship it to markets in the east.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
January 1863
21 years old or head of a family
citizen of the US
160 acres of land
live on and farm for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
This problem faced by farmers, after the invention of the railroad, caused them to call for government ownership of the railroads.
What are excessive shipping rates?
As a result of Western migration, Native Americans were forced off of their land and onto these.
What are reservations.
The National Grange was organized to help this group of people.
rough terrain, attacks form Indigenous people, shortage of workers
Two ways that the gold standard kept farmers upset.
What are lower prices and lower incomes?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This precious object sent many people west during the mid-1800s in an attempt to gain wealth.
What is gold?
This group want to fuel inflation, or a general rise in prices by increasing the money supply.
What is the Greenback Party?
"You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." - William Jennings Bryan, 1869
What is Bryan's disagreement with the gold standard and it keeping crop prices down?
Who are the Exodusters?
The US government's attempt to assimilate Native American children.
What are Native American boarding schools?
This act divided reservation land into individual plots for families, rather than keeping the reservation whole and owned by the tribe as a whole. This was an attempt to assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
One of the most well known Native American boarding schools.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
Paper Money
What is a greenback?