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Western Frontier
Question | Answer |
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Dawes Act | Tried to "americanize" Native Americans |
Homestead Act | Offered free western land to settlers |
Gold Standard | backing dollars solely with gold |
Great Plains | Grassland extending through the West |
Exodusters | African-American migrants to Kansas |
Populism | Movement of the people |
Chisholm Trail | Major cattle route from Texas to Kansas |
Oliver Hudson Kelley | Started the Grange |
Bimetallism | a monetary system based solely on sliver |
The ______ began as a social organization for farmers, but soon began to concentrate on battling the railroads | Grange |
Long Drive | consisted of rounding up the cattle and leading them to the shipping yards in Abilene, Kansas |
Soddy | a Type of home made from prairie turf |