Western Expansion
Western Expansion continued
Farmers
Populism
100
What was discovered in California in 1849 which greatly increased the population of the state?
What is gold
100
What is the name of the method to Americanize and Christianize Native Americans?
What is assimilation
100
With the lack of fuel on the Great Plains what did farmers use for fuel?
What is animal dung "buffalo chips"
100
What two groups of workers made up the Populist Party?
What is farmers and laborers
200
What was the name of the railroad that connected Omaha, Nebraska with Sacramento, California that now allowed travelers to travel from the east coast of the U.S. to the west coast of the U.S.?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
200
What did the plains Indians rely on for their very existence?
What is Buffalo/Bison
200
What was a problem with the farmers all the way up until the 1930's that caused their prices for their products to fall?
What is overproduction
200
What is being represented in this political cartoon?
What is the Cross of Gold Speech
300
Where did federal troops relocate Native Americans to after the Indian Wars?
What is the reservation system
300
What invention kept ranchers' cattle from destroying farmland?
What is barbed wire
300
Which of the following is a problem that farmers had with the banks?
A. No way to deposit money
B. Low interest rates
C. Surplus of money
D. High interest rates
What is D. High interest rates
300
Want kind of coinage did the Populists want?
A. Gold Standard
B. Silver Standard
C. Gold and Silver "Bimetallism"
What is C Gold and Silver "Bimetallism"
400
What was the name of the act that gave Native Americans 160 acres of reservation land to farm and was later bought by whites for cheap prices when precious minerals were discovered on the land?
What is the Dawes Act
400
What did farmers use in the Great Plains to draw water from the aquifer?
What is windmills
400
What was the name of the act that required railroad companies to publish their rates and required them to have fair and reasonable shipping rates?
What is Interstate Commerce Act
400
Who gave the famous "Cross of Gold " speech?
Who is William Jennings Bryan
500
What was the name of the act that gave cheap land for settlers out west if the farm it for five years?
What is the Homestead Act
500
Due to the lack of wood on the Great Plains what did settlers build their house out of?
What is sod
500
What is the name of the organization formed by the farmers that established a national association and social clubs?
What is the Grange
500
What is the name of the platform where the Populists came up with ideas such as the secret ballot, initiatives and recalls that would later be adopted during the Progressive Era?
Hint: It's a city name in Nebraska.
The Omaha Platform