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american history
Question | Answer |
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Dawes Act | law that allowed white settlers to take much of the land set aside for native americans |
assimilation | plan that sought to abolish native americans traditional culters |
Chisholm trail | allowed the cattle business to flourish by providing a route to a shipping yard in Abliene, Kansas |
Battle of Wounded Knee | slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Americans that marked the end of the Indian wars in 1890 |
Homestead Act | offered 160 acres of land free to any head of household |
soddy | provided warmth but no protection form snakes and insects |
morril act | gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges |
oliver Hudson keley | started an organization for farmer's that came to be known as the Grange |
bimetallism | policy that supporters hoped would place more money in the pockets of ordinary people |
William Jennings Bryan | Populist candidate who lost the presidential election of 1896 |
exoduster | an African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post Reconstruction years |
gold standard | a monetary system in which the basic unit of currency is defined in terms of a set amount of gold |
Great Plains | THE VAST GRASSLAND THAT EXTENDS THOURGH the central portion north America, from Texas northward in Canada, east of the rocky mountain |