Farmers and the Populist movement
What was the Populist Party platform?
the platform of the Democratic Party.
Somewhere crops are grown or animals are raised.
What is a Farm?
What year did the Spanish bring horses to New Mexico?
What is 1598?
a large wild ox
What is a buffalo?
The year that Congress pass the Homestead Act
What is 1862?
What was the Grange?
an organization for farmers.
an alternative shelter when wood or stone was scarce.
What is Soddy?
the act that allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act?
another term for the Dakota people or their language.
What is Sioux?
Type of farms that were created in light of farmers in debt
What is Bonanza Farms?
How were the railroads taking advantage of farmers?
charging excessive prices for shipping and storage.
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
What is Agriculture?
What was the result of Custer's Last Stand?
the result was that Colonel Custer and his troops all ended up dead
a high plateau of grasslands that is located in parts of the United States and Canada in North America.
What is The Great Plains?
The two companies that raced to lay railroad track
What is the Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
What caused the panic of 1893?
3 million people became unemployed.
a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.
What is a Settler?
the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
What is Native American?
What type of settlers were called Exodusters?
Blacks who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
What was the Grange's original purpose?
to pro-vide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families.
several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
What is The Homestead Act?
What was the government’s policy toward Native American land?
there were treaties made that designated specific boundaries for each Native American tribes land.
a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
Who is Sitting Bull?
How did new inventions cause different farming in the West?
these new inventions made farming in the West faster and more efficient.