Native Americans
As settlers moved west, Indian reservations ______.
Shrunk/Got smaller
How did the government promote the building of railroads?
They gave the railroad companies land based on how much track they built.
People flocked west at first because of the discovery of ____.
Gold
The populist party rose out of the Grange movement, led by _____.
Farmers.
Immigrants who settled in the Great Plains were mostly ___.
Farmers
The Great Plains Indians became masters of using this animal that the Spanish Explorers brought.
Horses
Why was the Homestead Act created?
To encourage people to settle the great plains.
Give two examples of technology advancements during westward expansion.
Steel plow, barbed wire, reaper, steel windmill
The populist party pushed for what metal to be used to back paper money?
Silver.
What is assimilation?
Normally: Two cultures melding together.
For this Class: The concept of destroying the culture of Native Americans and replacing it with American culture.
One of the only major victories by Native Americans against US Calvary was ____.
The Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Dawes Act (1887) tried to do what?
Break up Native American land and “Americanize” them.
The group of ex-slaves that settled in Kansas after the Civil War were known as _____.
Exodusters.
The populist party supported this democratic candidate for president.
William Jennings Bryan
George Armstrong Custer was part of the _____.
7th US Cavalry.
He was the chief of the Lakota Sioux.
Chief Sitting Bull.
The children at the Indian boarding schools were effectively ____, as stated by the US government.
Hostages.
Were homesteader families on the plains all given land of equivalent value?
No. While they were given 160 acres per family, the quality of the land varied based on location.
What modern political group utilizes some of the ideas of populism?
The Democratic Party
What was Richard Pratt’s (the founder of the Indian boarding school) famous quote regarding his views on Native American culture?
"Kill the Indian, save the man."
This event led to the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians.
The Massacre at Wounded Knee.
What did the Morrill Act do?
It gave land to the states to finance agricultural education.
As the farmers grew more, the prices of crops began to drop. What economic principle is this idea connected to?
Supply and demand.
What groups of people wanted to support the gold standard? Why?
Bankers and businesses. The gold standard makes money more valuable, and they have a lot of it already.
If students at an Indian boarding school tried to run away or use their own language, they were _____.
Tortured.