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LMHS AMH Chapter 5
Chapter 5 vocabulary/terms to know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Great Plains | the grassland extending through the west |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | The treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River |
| Massacre at Sand Creek | massacre of over 150 Cheyenne; mostly women and children |
| The Bozeman Trail | Trail where the Sioux ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his men. "The Fetterman Massacre" location. |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux chief who led his people by the strength of his character and purpose. Famous for killing General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. |
| Colonel Custer | Despite other successes, he is most remembered for his defeat and death at the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
| Assimilation | a plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture. |
| Dawes Act | Act passed in 1887 aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans. It broke up the reservations and gave some land to individual Native Americans. |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | The 7th Calvary (Custer's old group) rounded up 350 starving Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek. The next day, the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up their weapons; 300 unarmed Native Americans were slaughtered. |
| longhorns | sturdy, short-tempered breeds (cattle) accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern spain. |
| Chisholm Trail | the major cattle route from San Antonio through Oklahoma to Kansas |
| long drive | the overland transport of cattle |
| Homestead Act | Act passed by congress offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of a household. |
| exoduster | African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas |
| Soddy | a dugout, sod home on the prairie. |
| John Deere | invented a steel plow |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented a reaping machine |
| Morrill Act | gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges. |
| The Hatch Act | established agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new developments |
| bonanaza farms | enormous single-crop spreads of 15,000-50,000 acres |
| Greenbakcs | paper money issued after the Civil War that could not be exchanged for gold or silver |
| Oliver Hudson Kelley | started the Patrons of Husbandry (known as THE GRANGE) |
| The Grange | provided a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families. |
| Farmer's Alliances | organizations which educated people about topics such as lower interest rates on loans and gov't control over railroads and banks. |
| Populism | the movement of the people- the people's party. (the party of the farmers). |
| Panic of 1893 | Caused by rapidly expansion of Railroads. They went bankrupt which caused a run on the bank and eventually a DEPRESSION |
| bimetallism | a monetary system in which the government would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks (the type the farmer's favored) |
| gold standard | backing dollars solely with gold |
| William McKinley | 1896 Presidential Candidate of the Republican party. He won. Supporter of a GOLD standard |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democratic party nominee for the 1896 election. He had the support of the populists, but did not win. |
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