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Cultures Clash on the Prairie
Settling on the Great Plains
Farmers and the Populist Movement
Terms and Names
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The name given to the grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
What is the Great Plains?
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A name given to the African Americans who moved from post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
Who was the exodusters?
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Known as "the movement of the people" this new political base/party demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers and other workers and to give a greater voice to the people in their government.

Populism/Populist

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A word for giving up ones beliefs and way of life to become part of another culture.
What is assimilation?
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Sturdy, short-tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern Spain.  Now they have been given some significant status in the state of Texas.

longhorns

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The discovery of this led many more settlers to come westward and take over the lands.

Gold

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The act offered 160 acres of land in the Plains for free to any citizen or intended citizen. However, only 10 % of land intended to go to families did. Instead, big businesses and railroads used the law for profit.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
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Oliver Hudson Kelley started the Patrons of Husbandry, an organization for farmers that became known as this. Its original purpose was to provide a social outlet and an educational forum for farm families.
What is the Grange?
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General of the 7th cavalry army of United States

George A. Custer

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At the Democratic Convention, delivered an impassioned address to the assembled delegates, known as the "Cross of Gold".  He went on to win the Democratic nomination. (Populist Party

William Jennings Bryan

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The extended family, horse and this burly animal were central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800's.
What is the buffalo?
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Although this mode of transportation helped connect the Pacific and East coast and all places in between it is also most responsible for what some historians believe to be what end the era of the wide open frontier.
What is the railroad?
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These farms yielded Single crop spreads from 15,000 to 50,000 acres

Bonanza farms

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This was the final battle of the supposed "Indian Wars". Over 300 unarmed Native Americans including children were massacred.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
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The Grange gave rise to other organizations, such as this one, which sympathized with farmers sending lecturers from town to town to educate people about topics such as lower interest rates on loans and government control over railroads and banks.

Farmer's Alliance

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This battle saw Sitting Bull and the natives defeat Custer and the 7th cavalry.

Battle of Little Big Horn

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These free standing "houses" on the plains were constructed by stacking blocks of prairie turf. Like a dug out, they were warm in the winter and cool in the summer. But watch out for those critters!
What is a soddy?
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This mans election to the presidency effectively marked the end of Populism.
Who is William McKinely
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The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.

Chisholm Trail

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This act authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals

Dawes Act

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This major conflict brought the end to the wars between the federal governments and the Plains Indians.
What is the Battle (massacre) of Wounded Knee?
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This act gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862 and 1890?
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1. monetary system in which the government would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or check

2. monetary system back only by gold

bimetallism

gold standard

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An overland transport of animals that often lasted about three months was known as

long drive

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This agreement between the US government and the Sioux, resulted in the Sioux agreeing to live on a reservation along the Missouri River in exchange for the government closing the Bozeman Trail.

Treaty of Fort Laramie