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This 1868 treaty aimed to settle the Plains Indians on reservations in exchange for hunting rights and protection.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
This was the original purpose of the Grange when it was founded by Oliver Hudson Kelley.
What is to provide a social and educational place for farm families?
This method of mining involves washing out mineral-rich soil with pans or sluices.
What is placer mining?
This Act granted 160 acres of land to settlers who improved it over a period of five years
What is the Homestead Act?
This was the primary motivation for most people moving westward during the gold and silver rushes of the 19th century.
What are economic opportunities?
This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux was a prominent figure in the resistance against U.S. government policies.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This political movement sought to advance the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s.
What is Populism?
This Nevada site became famous after the discovery of silver ore in 1859.
What is the Comstock Lode?
These were large, single-crop farms that appeared on the Great Plains in the late 1800s.
What are bonanza farms?
This famous 1876 battle, a pivotal event in the Indian Wars, saw the defeat of U.S. forces by a coalition of Native American tribes led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
This tragic event in 1890 marked the end of the Indian Wars and involved the U.S. Army killing hundreds of Sioux.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
This 1896 presidential candidate was supported by the Populists for his pro-silver stance.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This type of cattle, durable for long cattle drives, was driven from Texas to railheads in Kansas.
What is the longhorn?
These were homes made from sod on the sparse treeless plains.
What is a soddy?
This event, completed in 1869, greatly facilitated Westward movement and trade by linking the East and West coasts of the United States.
What is the completion of the transcontinental railroad?
This term describes the U.S. government's strategy to integrate Native Americans into American society by adopting white customs and farming practices.
What is assimilation?
This system proposed by the Populists involved backing money with both gold and silver.
What is bimetallism?
This mining method involves extracting minerals by using high-pressure water jets.
What is hydraulic mining?
This term refers to African Americans who moved from the South to Kansas during Reconstruction.
Who are Exodusters?
This act passed in 1830 authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1887 law intended to encourage assimilation through division of tribal lands into individual family plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
hese laws were criticized by the Populist Party because they allowed railroads to set high grain transport prices.
What are railroad monopolies?
This trail was a major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
This 1862 Act helped establish agricultural colleges across America.
What is the Morrill Act?
Name the 1872 national park established by the U.S. government, which symbolized both the preservation of natural beauty and the control over vast natural resources in the West.
What is Yellowstone National Park?