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The election between William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley
What is the Election of 1896.
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the 25th President of the United States.
Who is William McKinley.
100
A heavily built wild ox used for consumption by the western Native Americans.
What are Buffalo's?
100
Known the the old west as ____ these were abandoned towns/cities.
What is a ghost town
100
The "Soddy" was a successor to the log cabin during frontier settlement of Canada and the United States.
What is a Sod House
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A economic depression in the US similar to the panic of 1873
What is the Panic of 1893
200
Portrayed as the cowardly lion in the Wizard of OZ and also a candidate in the election of 1896.
What is William Jennings Bryan.
200
Native people who lived on the great plains and were forced into reservation/boarding schools.
What are the Plains Indians
200
A town that has a rapid population increase.
What is a boomtown
200
A type of currency with a greenback
What is Greenbacks
300
was made during the Civil War in 1862, gave everyone a plot of land but they had to farm it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862
300
People that have a lifestyle of agriculture.
What are Homesteaders
300
The first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school, founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt.
What is the Carlisle Indian School
300
The battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians at _________ Creek in South Dakota.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee
300
The reduction of the level of prices in an economy.
What is Deflation
400
Authorized the US to survey Native American land and divide it into pieces of land for individual Indians.
What is Dawes Act of 1887
400
A name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas.
What are Exodusters
400
A religious movement in Native American people.
What is the ghost dance
400
A temporary settlement for mining purposes.
What are Mining Camps
400
Silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson
What is Comstock Lode
500
An Act donating land to the several states that would provide colleges for the Benefit of agriculture.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862
500
This nickname was given to the African-American Cavalry by the Native American tribes they fought in the Indian Wars.
What are Buffalo Soldiers
500
A Native American tribe who live in the Northwestern region.
Who is Nez Perce
500
A battle in which General George Custer and his forces were defeated by Sioux warriors.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn.
500
A farmers' association organized in 1867
What is The Grange