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was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.
What is Chisholm Trail
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name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas
What is Exoduster
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a farmers' association organized in 1867. Sponsors social activities, community service, and political lobbying. Officially called the Patrons of Husbandry.
What is the Grange
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was dispatched to the west to fight in the American Indian Wars and appointed lieutenant colonel of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment where he and all his men were killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876
What is George Custer
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The prairie lacked standard building materials such as wood or stone; however, thickly-rooted prairie grass was abundant. What were the houses called
What is the Soddy
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Delivered the Cross of Gold speech
What is William Jennings Bryan
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was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation[1] signed on April 29, 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. The Powder River Country was to be henceforth closed to all whites. The treaty ended Red Cloud's War.
What is Treaty of Fort Laramine
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United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land,at little or no cost. In the United States, this originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres of unappropriated federal land within the boundaries of the public land states
What is the Homestead Act
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Was a short-lived agrarian-populist political party in the United States that most historians agree was on the left-wing of American politics. It was highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with the labor movement.
What is the Populist Party
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the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being so adapted
What is Assimilation
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United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges
What is the Morrill Land-Grant Act
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was the 25th President of the United States he raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals.
What is William McKinley
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Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship
What is the Dawes Act
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Gave federal funds, initially of $15,000 each, to state land-grant colleges in order to create a series of agricultural experiment stations, as well as pass along new information, especially in the areas of soil minerals and plant growth.
What is the Hatch Act
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a system allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (e.g., gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other.
What is Bimetallism