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UShist 1.4
Quiz practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Grange | cooperatives that helped farmers with costs |
| Populist Party | supported free silver to help drive up crop prices |
| Western states | the first states to grant WOMEN the right to vote |
| William Jennings Bryan | Populist candidate who supported a free silver policy |
| sod | many settlers on the Great Plains built homes made of.... |
| Presidential election of 1896 | a time when Democrats and Populists supported William Jennings Bryan |
| Homestead Act | offered 160 acres of free land to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for 5 years. |
| Exodusters | African Americans who escaped to the West. |
| Gold standard | backed by the Republican Party, they believed that limiting the supply of money would keep inflation down. |
| frontier | In 1890, the Census Bureau announced that this no longer existed. |