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20 Cards in this Set
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Morrill Land-Grant Act |
federal grant of 1862 that gave 140 million acres western land to state governments, which then could sell the land to fund agricultural colleges |
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speculators |
people who buy large areas of land hoping to sell it later for a profit |
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Homestead Act |
law passed in 1862 that offered certain settlers 160 acres of land if they built a house and farmed for 5 years |
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squatter |
person occupying public land in order to gain title to it |
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boomer |
person wanting to settle in the West in the late 1880s, especially one of those whom pressuredCongress in 1889 to take over Native American land for this purpose |
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sooner |
person who settled land in the Indian Territory before it was officially made available in 1889 |
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bonanza farms |
large farms owned by big businesses and managed by professionals |
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cash crops |
crop raised and sold for money, as opposed to crop raised to supply food to the grower |
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long drive |
practice of moving cattle from distant grazing ranges to railroad centers for shipment; common in the West from the 1860s to the 1880s |
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deflation |
period of gradually dropping prices, generally brought on by the decrease in the supply of available money |
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currency policy |
the federal government's plan for the makeup and quantity of the nation's money supply |
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the Grange |
farmer's group, also known as the Patron of Husbandry, most popular during the 1860s and 1870s; formed farmers' cooperatives for buying large quantities of goods and pressured legislatures to regulate railroads |
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Exoduster |
member of a group of southern African Americans who participated in an exodus or mass migration to the West in the late 1870s |
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George Armstrong Custer |
general who directed army attacks against Native Americans in the late 1870s; commanded army forces killed in 1876 at Little Bighorn in Montana |
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Chief Sitting Bull |
Chief Leader of Sioux in clashes with United States Army in Black Hills in the 1870s |
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Chief Joseph |
Leader of Nez Perce; forced to give up his home by United States Army, fled towards Canada; captured in 1877 |
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Populists |
followers of the People's party of 1892 who sought radical reforms in the United States economic and social policies |
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William Jennings Bryan |
advocate of silver standard and proponent of democratic and Populist views from the 1890s through the 1910s; Democratic candidate for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908 |
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Frederick Jackson Turner |
historian who wrote an essay in 1893 emphasizing the western frontier as a powerful force on the formation of the American character |
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Wounded Knee |
in 1890, where a massacre, which killed over 200 unarmed Sioux, took place |
