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Western Revolution
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Calamity Jane | expert markswoman who entertained in the Wild West Show |
| long drive | movement of cattle along a route from south Texas to Abilene Kansas |
| Great Plains | grassland extending through the west central portion of the U.S. |
| Homestead Act | passed by Congress in 1862-offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who would live & cultivate it for 5 years |
| exoduster | African Americans who migrated from post Reconstruction south to Kansas to take advantage of the Homestead Act land |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux leader - fled to Canada after the Battle at Little Bighorn |
| George A. Custer | Lieutenant Colonel who was defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| assimilation | a plan where Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture |
| Dawes Act | aimed to Americanize" Native Americans. Broke up reservations and distributed land to Native Americans for farming |
| Ghost Dance | a ritual dance believed by the Native Americans to have the power to restore Indian land, return the buffalo, & make the whites disappear, when performed |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | massacre by U.S. soldiers of 300 unarmed Nataive Americans in South Dakota |
| longhorn | cattle originally brought by the Spanairds to Mexico, then to the US. Raised on Texan ranches, they became a symbol of the American west |
| "Wild Bill" Hickok | James Butler. Was a scout & spy during the Civil War. Became an entertainer in the Wild West Show |
| homesteader | a settler on the free land made available by the Homestead Act |
| bonanza farm | an enormous farm on which a single crop is grown |
| soddy | a home made of blocks of turf, comonly built by settlers of the Homestead Act |
| Morrill Land Grant Acts | laws enacted in 1862 and 1890 to help create agricultural colleges by giing federal land to states |
| Oliver Kelley | founder of the Grange |
| Grange | aka the Patrons of Husbandry-a social & educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the rairoads in the late 19th century |
| Populism | a late 19th century political mmovement seeking to advance the interesmettalismts of farmers and laborers |
| bimettalism | the use of both gold and silver as a basis for a national monetary system |
| William McKinley | Republican President of the US-supported the gold standard |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democratic candidate who ran against McKinley, delivered the "Cross of Gold" speech |
| "Cross of GolddD" speech | an impassioned address by Wm. Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention in which he attacked the "gold bugs" who insisted the US currency be backed only with gold |
| The Panic of 1893 | Economic downturn that started with the failure of big railroad companies and resulted in 30% unemployment, stock market collapse, and severe deflation |
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