Native Americans
This policy of trying to make Native Americans more like white Americans
Assimilation
Who gave the "Cross of Gold" speech?
William Jennings Bryan
The discovery of this resource led to people moving to California
Gold
This is the term for African Americans who moved west
Exodusters
This animal was hunted by Native Americans and posed a challenge to settlers on the Great plains
Buffalo
Native Americans were put on these lands
Reservations
Populists wanted the unlimited minting of this
Silver
This law led to the creation of many colleges
Morrill Land-Grant Act
This was the trail that became a center of the cattle industry
Chisholm trail
The 2 million people who staked claim out west. They were often beaten to the best land by "Sooners"
Boomers
The Native American chief who was killed at Wounded Knee
Sitting Bull
Farmers were helped by this economic effect where the dollars become worth less
Inflation
People who bought land with the idea of selling it later for a profit
Land speculator
Places where cattle were brought to
Cow towns
You had to build this to receive land from the Homestead Act
A house
Custer lost the Battle of Little Bighorn to this tribe
The Sioux
This was a social organization of farmers, similar to a union
The Grange
People who enter Native territory illegally to claim land quickly
Sooners
Nickname given to Black soldiers who fought Native Americans
Buffalo soldiers
Leader of the Nez Perce native tribe
Chief Joseph
Settlers felt they had a strong claim to Native American land because they were using it more...
Productively
We discussed two different pieces of legislation that required the government to buy silver. Name both of them.
Bland-Allison & Sherman-Silver Purchase Act
System where cattle were herded to railroads
Long Drive
Frederick Jackson Turner believed this played a key role in shaping American democracy
The frontier
This act turned reservation lands into individual plots
The Dawes Act