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These are public lands where Native Americans were required to live by the federal government
Reservations
There was no real law out west so self-appointed law enforcers known would gather to punished lawbreakers. What were they called?
Vigilantes.
This was the policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold. Gold was used to back up the money.
Gold Standard.
He was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 to 1901.He led the United States during the Spanish-American War in 1898. During his second term as president he was assassinated in 1901.
William McKinley
Practitioners of the ghost dance preached that the ritual would banish white settlers and restore the buffalo to the Plains. As the popularity of the movement spread, government officials became concerned about where it might lead. The cavalry finally caught up with them, in present-day South Dakota. Having been partially disarmed by U.S. troops, the Sioux were badly outgunned in the fight that followed. In the end, more than 100 men, women, and children died. What was the name of this incident.
Wounded Knee
This was a 1864 incident near Fort Lyons at Sand Creek in which Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, some of who were under U.S. Army protection
Sand Creek Massacre
This was the rail link between the East and the West. You could now ride a train from New York to California.
Transcontinental Railroad.
This was a 1883 law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system
Pendleton Civil Service Act
This organization attracted about a million members. The goals this group included providing education on new farming techniques and calling for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates.
The Grange
This act encouraged Indians to become private property owners and farmers. It ended the reservations’ tribal landholding system. Each Indian family was given 160-acres of land to farmstead. To protect Indian landowners from unscrupulous land speculators, the land could not be sold or transferred from its original family for 25 years. Traditional tribal feasts, dances, and even funeral practices were outlawed, and Native American religions were discouraged. To further speed assimilation, missionaries and other reformers established boarding schools, to which Indian parents were pressured to send their children. There Indian children were to learn and live by the rules, dress, customs, and culture of white America.
Dawes General Allotment Act
He was a war chief and important spiritual leader who became the first-ever chief of all the Lakota Sioux bands in the 1860s. After surrendering to the Army in 1881, he lived on a reservation where he was killed by Indian police sent to arrest him.
Sitting Bull
land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads
land grants.
This is a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch. The include government departments and their non-elected employees
Civil Service
He was a Democratic and Populist leader who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency. During his career as a lawyer, politician, and speaker, he fought for reforms such as the income tax, Prohibition, and women's suffrage.
William Jennings Bryan
African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War
Exodusters.
Near the Little Bighorn River, in present-day Montana, Custer and his force of about 250 men unexpectedly came upon a group of at least 2,000 Indians. Crazy Horse led the charge at this battle, killing Custer and all of his men. What was the name of this battle.
Battle of Little Big Horn.
method of ranching in which the rancher allowed his or her livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland
open range system
This is a political party’s organization that wins voter loyalty and guarantees power to a small group of leaders, who often abuse it for their own gain
Political Machine
The People’s Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms.
The Populist Party
(the White Caps) was a group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners. The group declared: “Our purpose is to protect the rights and interests of the people in general; especially those of the helpless classes.”
Las Gorras Blancas
He was the chief of the Nez Percé. He led his followers on an unsuccessful flight to escape confinement on a reservation. First sent to Oklahoma, they were eventually returned to a new reservation in Washington state. However, he was unable to secure their return to their tribal homeland.
Chief Joseph
The government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for five years, dig a well, and build a road. What was the Name of this Act?
Homestead Act.
This is the practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications
Spoils System
This was a network of farmers’ organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s. These organizations soon connected farmers not only in the South but also in the West, and for a brief period farmers of all races and ethnicities banded together for their common cause. Because of regularly rising rates, they wanted the government to regulate the interest that banks could charge for loans. Members also tried to convince the government to force railroads to lower freight prices so members could get their crops to markets outside the South at reduced rates.
Farmers Alliance
This is currency not backed by gold or silver, in the 70's the US stopped using the gold standard all together and switched to this.
Fiat Money.