Native Americans
This event ended the Indian wars between the United States and the Plains Indians.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
This event ended the Populist Party in 1896.
What is the election of William McKinley?
These settlers came from the South and, like Exodus, were fleeing persecution and Jim Crow laws to create a better life out West.
Who were the Exodusters?
This technology was responsible for helping to populate Western lands faster and safer than wagons.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This movement started as informational and social gatherings for farmers to learn about farming or perhaps marry off their eligible children.
What is the Grange?
This event marked the first major treaty between the United States and Native Americans.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
This economic tool was supported by the farmers in the West.
This legislation allowed settlers who worked the land for five years to keep the land to help fill out the frontier lands of the United States.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
These farms were larger and more able to purchase the latest machinery and became more like factory farms with many employees.
What are bonanza farms?
This technology provided quick and easy access for farmers crops and cattle drivers trying to get their cows to markets in New York, Chicago, and Washington DC.
What are railroads?
The group responsible for why the Great Plains Indians were moved to smaller and smaller reservations on the Great Plains region.
Who are white settlers?
This profession was distrusted by the Western farmers because of the various issues with bankruptcy and loans.
Who were the bankers?
This concept was used by the United States to break various cultures and turn them more "American"
What is assimilation?
This technology is responsible for the end of the open range.
What is barbed wire?
This group wanted the United States government to own and operate the railroads.
Who are the Populist Party?
This aspect was not a part of the Plains Indians culture and understanding.
What is land ownership?
This individual delivered the "Cross of Gold" speech and was the nominee of the Democrats and the Populists Parties.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This legislation was designed to give out reservation land to individual Native Americans but its aim was to destroy their tribal culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
What is telegraph wire?
These individuals were faced with droughts, freezing winters, dry summers, hard soil, and pest infestations which could ruin their livelihood.
Who were Western Plains farmers?