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Vocabulary

Native American Life
People
Occupations of the West
Populism
100
town that grows quickly around gold strikes
What is a boomtown
100
Place that the government forced Native Americans to live
What is a reservation?
100
Two Sioux chiefs who beat Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Who were Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse ?
100
People who sought gold and silver underground
Who were miners?
100
The occupation of the founders of the populist party was
What is farming?
200
Latino cowhand of the Old West
What is a vaquero?
200
Battle where all US soldiers were killed by the Sioux
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn
200
Nez Perce Chief who refused to live on reservation and fled to Canada
What was Chief Joseph?
200
People who raise cattle to sell
Who are ranchers?
200
The Populists believed that that higher food prices would
What is increase the farmers pay?
300
Untamed land
What is the frontier?
300
Colorado military action that killed 150 peaceful Cheyenne Native Americans
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
300
African-American army troops that provided protection to settlers
Who were the Buffalo soldiers?
300
People who grow crops for the consumption of others
Who are farmers?
300
This populists wanted this metal to be used to back money to increase the money supply
What is silver?
400
a person who takes justice into their own hands
What is a vigilante?
400
Law that broke reservations into farming and grazing land plots.
What is the Dawes Act
400
Political party that wanted the silver standard
Who were the Populists?
400
People who herd that cattle to market
What are cowhands or vaqueros?
400
This movie is suppose to be an allegory of the Populist movement ?
What is the Wizard of OZ?
500
Native American children were sent here to become Americanized
What are boarding schools?
500
Populist leader who made a the Cross of Gold speech
Who was William Jennings Byran?
500
Law enforcement official of the West
Who were sheriffs?
500
8 hour work days, voting rights for women, government ownership of railroads
What are rights the Populists fought for?