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The Great Plains
Clash on the Prairie
Now and Then
Populist Movement
100
This act provided 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household.
What is Homestead Act
100
This treaty allowed the Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River in 1868.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie
100
This was the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail
100
The founder of an organization called the "Grange" which provided a social outlet and an educational form for isolated farm families.
What is Oliver Hudson Kelley
200
This term described African Americans who moved from the Post Reconstruction South.
What is Exodusters
200
This indian chief earned this nickname after a fight with a crow, a traditional enemy of the Sioux.
What is Sitting Bull
200
This overland transport often lasted 3 months and usually included one cowboy for every 250 to 300 head of cattle.
What is long drive
200
This term described the movement of the People
What is Populism
300
This term describes any of numerous grasshoppers that travel in large swarms, often doing great damage to crops.
What is locust
300
This act of legislation was aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act
300
This African American poet, philanthropist, and lecturer graduated from the prestigious Lincoln University in Oxford, PA.
What is Langston Hughes
300
A monetary system in which the government would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks.
What is bimetallism
400
This Act of legislation gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Act
400
This man reported that there was "Gold from the grass roots down" !!
What is General George Custer
400
These were havens for snakes, insects, and other pets. Usually warm in winter and cool in summer.
What is soddies
400
This term describe "backing dollars solely with gold".
What is gold standard
500
This term described the grasslands extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
What is Great Plains
500
These animals were sturdy, short tempered breeds, accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern Spain.
What is Longhorns
500
Railroad companies and investors created these huge single crop spreads of 15, 000-50, 000 acres.
What is Bonanza Farms
500
He was the editor of the Omaha World-Herald and former Nebraska Congressman.
What is William Jennings Bryan