People
Lead refugees to Canada, stopped short of the border, and surrendered with the words: "I will fight no more forever."
Chief Joseph
Moved Indians westward in 1830
Indian Removal Act
Specific areas set aside for Native American use
Reservations
A sham construction company that took bribes from the railroads
Credit Mobilier
Out of Nebraska, build railroad with Irish Labor
Union Pacific
Rounded up herd and drove them over the open range to cowtowns
Cowboy
Each native family granted 160 acres of land to farm
Dawes General Allotment Act
Mining towns that would pop up overnight
Boomtowns
Loyal party members get government jobs due to loyalty
Spoils System
Out of California, built railroad with Chinese labor
Central Pacific
Reform-minded journalists who exposed institutions and leaders as corrupt
Muckrakers
Adopting the practices of a white society
Assimilation
A livestock management strategy in which animals are allowed to roam freely in search of food rather than being controlled
Open Range
Focused on raising awareness about corruption
Political Cartoon
The Grange failed, so the __________________ was created
Farmers Alliance
Worked hard to show women could be a part of the political arena
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Segregated schools in San Francisco
Chinese Exclusion Act
What links the west coast to the east coast?
Transcontinental Railroad
Provided a social outlet and an educational forum for farmers
The Grange
Former slaves that moved west towards Kansas
exodusters
______________ was credited with bringing ___________, who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars through corruption, to the public's attention through political cartoons.
Thomas Nast & Boss Tweed
Federal government jobs now based on a Civil Service Exam, NOT party loyalty
Pendleton Civil Service Act
At ______________, Indians performed the ________________, which is a Ritual that was thought to banish white settlers and restore the buffalo to the Plains.
Wounded Knee
Ghost Dance
Stages of the cycle of debt
1) Railroads charged high prices to transport goods
2) Prices for crops were low
3) Mortgaged farms to buy more land
Political party that gave people a greater voice
Populism