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
What was the idea that Americans were ordained to head west
Manifest Destiny
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
What trail did the settlers take out west?
Oregon Trail
What treaty tried to fix the war with Indians but only had short term peace?
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Who did the wicked witch represent in the Wizard of Oz?
Big Business and Banks
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
TEXAS
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
This was the name of the trail that Indians were forced to march on when being forced out west to immigration.
Trail of Tears
What did the Dawes Act do for Native Americans?
Divided reservation land into allotments for farming
What was the battle cry after the battle of the Alamo.
"Remember the Alamo"
The US economy was based (or backed) by this metal during the 1800s
gold
What hour work day did the Populist Party propose?
8 HOUR WORK DAY
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
What was the treaty that ended the war between Mexico and the US?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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)