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20 Cards in this Set
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Exoduster |
An African American who migrated to the West after the Civil War. |
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The Great Plains |
A vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from the Mississippi River in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. |
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Assimilation |
A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs. |
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Ghost Dance |
A religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the dead. |
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Homesteader |
A person who received land under the Homestead Act of 1862. |
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Stereotype |
A generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to all members of the group. |
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Soddie |
This was the type of house built by early homesteaders on the plains it was built out of sod, or grassy earth, and was cheap to build. |
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Populist |
A political party formed in 1891 mostly by farmers & members of labor unions who demanded government help with falling farm prices, regulation of railroad rates, and the free coinage of silver. |
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Monetary Policy |
A Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates. |
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Bimetallic Standard |
When currency consisted of gold or silver coins, or United States treasury notes that could be traded in for gold or silver. |
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Homestead Act |
Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. |
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Morrill Act |
The Law Passed awarding proceeds from the sale of public land to the states for the established of agricultural and mechanical colleges. |
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Wounded Knee Massacre |
It was the site of a massacre of Native North Americans in which between 150 and 370 Sioux people were killed, most of them unarmed. (1890) |
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Dawes Act |
An act that removed Indian land from tribal possesion, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. |
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Turner Thesis |
The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier was the key factor in the development of American democracy and institutions. |
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The Grange |
Originally a social organization between farmers, it developed into a political movement for government ownership of railroads. |
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Cross of Gold Speech |
A speech given by William Jennings Bryan, where He criticized the gold standard and supported the coinage of silver. |
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Interstate Commerce Act |
The 1887 law passed to regulate railroads, and other interstate businesses. |
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Bonanza Farms |
When a farm is controlled by large businesses, managed by professionals, and raising massive quantities of a single cash crops. |
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Helen Jackson |
An American poet and activist who protested against the treatment of the Native Americans. |
