Land and Culture
What fundamental belief did Native Americans hold about land ownership?
What is land cannot be owned individually?*\
Name three challenges settlers faced on the western frontier.
What are extreme weather, social isolation, and potential Native American raids?
What was the primary goal of Native American assimilation policies?
What is forcing Native American children to adopt white American culture?
What was the movement the farmers formed to unite their causes?
What is the Populist Movement?
What currency did William Jennings Bryan support?
What is bimetallism?
Describe the spiritual significance of names in Native American cultures.
What is a name that connects a person to their identity, family, and nature?
Describe the diversity of workers on cattle trails.
What is a workforce including Mexican, African American, and Native American cowboys?
Describe the Morrill Act of 1862.
What is established public land for states to build higher education buildings that focused on agriculture?
Why did African Americans migrate west in the late 1870s?
What is seeking land ownership and escaping southern racial restrictions?
Who won the 1896 election?
Who is William McKinley?
How did Native American land beliefs differ from European settlers?
What is viewing land as sacred and communally shared versus a commodity to be developed?
Name one technological invention that made farming the Great Plains easier.
What is barbed wire or a steel plow?
How did government schools impact Native American children?
What is prohibiting traditional languages, cultural practices, and abuse?
Describe the heritage of western workforce migrations.
What is a diverse group seeking economic opportunities?
What economic issues dominated late 19th-century politics?
What are currency debates over gold standard or bimetallism?
Explain the deep cultural connection Native Americans had with their land.
What is a view of land as a living entity, not just a resource?
What were the two purposes barbed wire served that made it an innovation?
What is keeping predators away and keeping cattle inside?
What was significant about the Morrill Act?
What is the first time the government put money towards higher education?
What economic factors drove western migration?
What are land opportunities, gold rushes, and new economic frontiers?
Why did the farmers want to change to bimetallism?
What is adding more money to the economy?
What was the event that occurred as a result of the Native American gathering to perform the Ghost Dance?
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Explain the economic motivations for western migration.
What are land ownership, economic opportunities, and escaping previous restrictions?
What two reasons did the U.S. government have for establishing the Homestead Act of 1862?
What is to create more farms for more food and to push back Native Americans?
Why were farmers economically unstable and in constant debt?
What is losing large amounts of their harvest and a monopolized railroad system?
How did the 1896 Election reveal a fundamental flaw in the American election system?
What is money influencing elections more than the people backing them?