Native Americans
This battle led to the deaths of about 200 U.S. soldiers, including Gen. George Custer.
Battle at Little Big Horn
This was the first group formed to try and help farmers. Was opposed to Railroads taking advantage of farmers.
The Grange
Belief that Americans had the right to settle from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
The Bessemer Process made this material more efficiently and cheaply?
Steel
The Southern economy was almost entirely dependent on rich crop?
Cotton
This massacre in 1864 led to the deaths of hundred of Native Americans?
Sand Creek Massacre
This group was formed to bring farmers together "cooperatively" to buy new equipment, seeds, and negotiate shipping costs.
Farmers Alliance
Animal hunted to near extinction in the Great Plains during the late 1800s?
Buffalo
Term used to describe a company that buys up all its competition and no longer has any competition?
Monopoly
African Americans had to take these if they wanted to vote in soutern elections?
Literacy tests
Last ditch Native American movement that sought to bring back the buffalo and get rid of the white settlers?
Ghost Dance Movement
By backing money with this, farmers believed it would raise their crop prices and also help them pay their debts.
Silver
This was the name of the act that gave 160 acres of land after working it for 5 years to each head of the household.
Homestead Act
Term used by industrialists that argues the rich are rich because they are superior and the poor are poor because they are inferior?
Social Darwinism
Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation and disenfranchised African Americans in the United States from the late 1870s until the mid-1960s
Jim Crow Laws
The process by which one culture moves into and becomes part of another culture.
Assimilation
He was the 1896 Populist Party candidate for president?
William Jennings Bryan
Which group of immigrants built the most dangerous section of the transcontinental railroad?
Chinese
He wrote the "Gospel of Wealth" and encouraged rich industrialists to be charitable?
Andrew Carnegie
Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens ?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This policy focused specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans
The Dawes Act
What was the name of the speech given by William Jennings Bryan that made him notorious amongst populists?
Cross of Gold
Name given to those who farmed the tough, hard soil of the Great Plains during the late 1800s?
Sodbusters
What is it when someone owns all of the means of production for their specific industry?
Vertical Integration
Andrew Johnson