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Farmers and Populism
Cultures on the Prairie
Settling the Plains
The Buffalo and The Cowboy
Wildcard
100
The first organization that tried to raise the prices of grain and organize farmers beginning as early as the 1860's
What is the Grange
100
The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
What is The Great Plains?
100
A form of shelter developed by settlers of the plains created by stacking blocks of prairie turf.
What is a Soddy?
100
The overland transport of cattle that could last as long as three months.
What is the long drive?
100
Deflation, high railroad rates, cycle of mortgages and debt.
What are causes of farmers economic troubles?
200
The Democratic candidate who supported backing the currency with silver rather than gold. Gained the support of the Populist Party.
Who is William Jennings Bryan
200
The ___________ increased mobility and extended hunting territory for Native Americans on the plains. The ___________ provided many of their basic needs and was central to life on the Plains.
What is the horse and the buffalo?
200
This act of congress offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen head of household.
What is The Homestead Act
200
This part of the buffalo is considered sacred to many tribes of Native Americans that lived on the prairie.
What is the importance of the buffalo skull?
200
This act of congress gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
300
Shifting the backing of our currency from gold to silver in order to ______________ the amount of money in circulation.
What is Increase
300
The death of Custer and all of his soldiers, continued raids on Native American camps, eventual defeat of the Sioux.
What are the results of Custer's last stand?
300
Barbed wire, the reaper machine, the steel plow and the windmill.
What are inventions that tamed the prairie?
300
The place where many Americans learned techniques regarding horse riding, ranching, roping and being a cowboy.
What is our neighbors in Mexico?
300
The goal of this plan was to "americanize" the Native Americans and help them assimilate into white culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Increasing the Money Supply, Raising prices for goods and services, A graduated income tax system, a federal loan program, single terms for Presidents and Vice-Presidents and electing senators by popular vote.
What is The Populist (or Peoples) Party platform
400
The plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life to become part of the white culture.
What is Assimilation?
400
A person who buys or sells something that involves a risk on the chance of making a profit.
What is a speculator?
400
A cowboys life was actually hard, boring and unromantic unlike the romanticized version we get in books and on TV
What are characteristics of a cowboys life?
400
Native Americans believed land could not be owned, where as white settlers believed owning land would give them a stake in the nation.
What are conflicting views on property in the prairie?
500
The main cause of stress and poverty for farmers on the prairie. They would charge exorbitant fees for shipping, holding and transport of farmers grain.
What are Railroads?
500
This act of congress broke up reservations, and sold off the quality excess land to settlers leaving little good land for Native Americans.
What is The Dawes Act
500
Homestead Act, by making land available cheaply, promoting homesteading, the Morrill Act and helping exodusters.
What are ways government policies encourage settlement of the west?
500
This was perhaps the biggest blow to the Native American way of life on the prairie.
What is the destruction of the buffalo?
500
Expanded rail lines and increased demand for beef after the Civil War.
What are developments spurred growth of the cattle industry?