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Vocabulary
Native Americans
Homesteaders
Government's Role
Misc
100
People who roamed from place to place following a food source
Nomads
100
Native Americans inhabited this vast grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains..
the Great Plains
100
Name one factor or reason that Americans and immigrants moved West... Hint: there are several correct answers! think "Push-Pull factors"
Free or cheap land, any of the Acts, escape violence , outlaws or to start over, ethnic or religious repression
100
Process by which one society becomes a part of another more dominate society...
assimilation
100
Vast estates devoted to a singe cash crop...
bonanza farms
200
exaggerated or oversimplified description of reality
stereotype
200
Land set aside by the US Government for Native Americans
Reservations
200
What material were most homesteader's home made out of?
Sod or soddies
200
The Act of Congress where after meeting certain requirements, and paying a small fee, individuals would receive 160 acres to farm in the Great Plains
Homestead Act
200
These people transported the cattle on the long drive towards the railway centers like, Abilene, Kansas...
cowboys
300
People who bought up large areas of land in hopes of selling it later for a profit...
Land Speculators
300
What Act of Congress divided Indian Reservations into individual plots of land?
Dawes Act
300
Give one reason many settlers on the Great Plains abandoned their homestead and returned back East.
weather, locusts, prairie fires, dust storms, bad crop year, debt
300
The Act of Congress that gave huge amounts of land to railroad companies...
Pacific Railway Act
300
An increase money supply or the amount of money in circulation, would lead to this...
inflation
400
Events and conditions that drove Americans and immigrants west...
Push-Pull factors
400
The Battle in June of 1876 over land in the Black Hills, where 2,000 Sioux warriors wiped out General Custer and more than 200 of this soldiers. Also know as "Custer's Last Stand" ...
The Battle of Little Bighorn
400
People who snuck by the US government officials to settle the best land claims
sooners
400
Federal program which gave states large amounts of land that could be sold to establish colleges...
Morrill Land-Grant Act
400
In the 1890's, a new political party developed called the Populist. The members were mostly farmers. Name one of the ideas promoted by the Populists party.
increase money supply, unlimited minting of silver, progressive income tax, government regulation of communications and transportation, 8-hour work day
500
Settlers that were feeling the violence and exploitation that followed reconstruction and moved west for a better life
Exodusters
500
Native Americans did not appreciate land granted to them by the Dawes Act because...
They didn't believe in the idea of individual property and/or had no interest in farming.
500
List the 4 requirements homesteaders needed to meet in order to receive 160 acres of land from the US government as part of the Homestead Act
21 years of age, US citizen, build a small house, farm land for 5 year
500
The Battle where Chief Sitting Bull and over 200 Sioux Indians are killed by the US Cavalry....
Battle of Wounded Knee
500
Who gave the famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention?
William Jennings Bryan