American Indians
Homestead Act
Corruption
Populism
The West
100

Specific Areas set aside by the government for Native American use.

Reservations

100

Government Act that offered farm plots to anyone willing to live on the land for 5 years, dig a well, & build a road

Homestead Act

100

The Idea that politicians would be awarded government jobs to loyal party workers

Spoil System

100

Political Party known as the "people's party"

Populist

100

The area west of the Mississippi was known as what?

The Great American Desert

200

The adopting of culture & civilization that is different than your own is what?

Assimilation

200

Self-appointed lawmakers who sought justice on the new frontier

Vigilantes

200

The government uses gold as the basis of a nation's currency & created paper money is known as what?

Gold Standard

200

The people's party mainly had their interests alined against.

Banks and Monopolys

200

What was an exoduster?

African American who moved west

300

Religious revival thought to banish settlers & restore buffalo to the plains

Ghost Dance Movement

300

A system of cattle ranching where cattle graze an open landscape & are herded into towns in the spring

Open-Range

300

Currency not backed by anything.

Greenbacks

300

Government organization that oversaw railroads & government regulation on transportationIn

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

300

What government agency oversees U.S. relations with American Indians?

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

400

Massacre that killed over 300 Sioux during a government attempt to take firearms.

Massacre at Wounded Knee

400

Towns that sprung up during the gold rush & then shut down when mining stopped.

Boomtown

400

What law created a civil service commission that required an exam for a job to reduce the spoil system?

Pendleton Act

400

Movement led by Oliver H. Kelley that sought to bring farming education & government regulation to the nation.

The Grange

400

What sport did Bill Pickett Invent?

Bulldogging

500

What law encouraged American Indians to become property owners, farmers, & end tribal land-holding?

Dawes Act

500

The railroad that connected the east & west of the United States

Transcontinental Railroad

500

Senator who would plunder millions of dollars from New York in Tammany Hall

Boss Tweed

500

Gifted Orator who spoke to the common man & tried to run for President

William Jennings Bryan

500

General Custer was defeated at what?

Battle at the Little Big Horn