Native Americans
This was land on which Native Americans were forced to move
Reservations
The main source of food that the Natives relied on but the government helped in the slaughter of
the buffalo
This type of railroad spans across the country
Transcontinental railroad
This Act gave 160 acres of land to settlers
Homestead Act
He was the Populist candidate for president in 1896
William Jennings Bryan
This term means trying to get Native Americans to adopt an American (white) way of life
Assimilation
What was the las Native American battle?
Wounded Knee Massacre
This railroad began in California and mainly used Chinese labor
Central Pacific
This Act granted land in western states for the purpose of building agricultural colleges
Morrill Act
Before Populism, this organization was created to help the education of farmers, and helped to organize cooperatives among farmers
This man and his forces were wiped out at the Battle of Little Bighorn by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
George Custer
Why were Native Americans nomadic (moving around; not settling one area)?
Following their main food source - the buffalo
This railroad began in Nebraska and mainly used Irish labor and African Americans
Union Pacific
This Act forced Native Americans to adopt a farming lifestyle by dividing reservation land into allotments for farming
Dawes Act
A monetary system where the government gives citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency
Bimetallism
John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers wiped out a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women and children here
Sand Creek Massacre
What did the Dawes Act do for Native Americans?
Divided reservation land into allotments for farming
The two railroads that created the transcontinental railroad met in this state
Utah
The US economy was based (or backed) by this metal during the 1800s
gold
EXTRA CREDIT: This was the first college west of the Mississippi River to take advantage of the Morrill Act
Why did Americans want to have Native Americans assimilate?
So Natives could move into American society as citizens and be a solution to violence
This stretch of land from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is called what?
Great Plains region
Eventually the railroad made it to this state, ending cattle drives
Texas
Farmers wanted to introduce this metal into the US money supply
silver
Within the theory of Populism and the Wizard of Oz, the city of Oz represents where?
Washington, DC (nation's capital)