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Western Ex/Populism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Pacific Railway Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | legislation to encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad, connecting the West to industries in the Northeast |
| a point on a railroad from which roads and other transportation routes begin. | railhead |
| What was the Morill-Land Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.” The president signed the bill into law on July 2, 1862. |
| What was the Homestead Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | set aside federal lands to create colleges to benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts. The president signed the bill into law on July 2, 1862. |
| How did assimilation have a negative impact on American Indians? | About 100,000 Native Americans were forced to attend these schools, forbidden to speak native languages, forced to renounce native beliefs, and forced to give up their Native American identities, including their names. Many children were placed with whi |
| What was the Dawes Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | The federal government aimed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture, which meant dividing tribal lands into individual plots. Only the Native Americans who accepted the division of tri |
| a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. | inflation |
| reduction of the general level of prices in an economy. | deflation |
| How does inflation effect interest rates? | The higher the inflation rate, the more interest rates are likely to rise |
| How does deflation effect interest rates? | lower interest rates as the demand for money drops. |
| Why were Silverites named as such? | They believed that currency should be redeemable in silver as well as gold. |
| the system by which the value of a currency was defined in terms of gold, for which the currency could be exchanged. The gold standard was generally abandoned in the Depression of the 1930s. | gold standard |
| a system of allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (e.g. gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other. | bimetallism |
| Which group of people were for the gold standard and why | They were called gold bugs. Gold bugs favored gold because using the gold standard would keep prices from rising. |
| Which group of people were for bimetallism and why? | Farmers, populists, and unions advocated for bimetallism because it would help them sell their goods at a higher price and lift them out of debt. The United States used bimetallism in the late 1800s and passed the Bland-Allison Act and the Sherman Silver |
| Where were the great plain located? | Texas up to Montana and North Dakota |
| a U.S. military officer and commander who rose to fame as a young officer during the American Civil War. He gained further fame for his post-war exploits against Native Americans in the West. | George Custer |
| Leader of the Populist Party and campaigned for more rights for farmers out west. | Mary Elizabeth Lease |
| 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901, after leading the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War and raising protective tariffs to promote American industry. | William McKinley |
| an American orator and politician from Nebraska, & a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908). He was perhaps the best-known orator | William Jennings Bryan |
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