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West. Ex. & Populism
Western Expansion & Populism U.S History Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Pacific Railway Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | 1862 & 1864 laws that provided land grants to railroad companies to build rail lines linking the east and west coasts of the U.S.; resulted in the Transcontinental Railroad (completed in 1869) |
| Railhead | a town located along a railroad at the end of a cattle trail; cattle drives usually ended there |
| What was the Morrill-Land Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | an 1862 law that gave land to states to build agricultural and engineering colleges in order to teach new farming methods to use in the west |
| What was the Homestead Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | have 160 acres of land in the west to anyone who farmed and lived on it for five years |
| How did assimilation have a negative impact on American Indians? | Because many of them lost their native culture by means of forcing more traditional European culture on them |
| What was the Dawes Act and why did the U.S. government pass it? | an 1887 law that required the surveying and dividing of Indian lands; 160 acres set aside for Indian families to farm while the rest was sold |
| Inflation | the price of everything goes up and interest rates go down |
| Why were Silverites named as such? | Because they were in support of bimetallism (gold and silver) |
| Gold Standard | system in which a nation's money supply is directly tied to the amount of gold it has (i.e. each dollar is backed by a determined weight of gold) |
| Bimetallism | the use of gold and silver as the basis for a country's monetary system |
| Which group of people were for the gold standard and why? | The "Gold Bugs" were businessmen and bankers who wanted the gold standard to keep a high value of money |
| Which group of people were for bimetallism and why? | The "Silverites" were farmers and laborers who wanted high prices and rates to go up so that they could pay off their debt |
| George Custer | Lt. Col. who led the U.S 7th Cavalry into a massacre by the Sioux Indians |
| Mary Elizabeth Lease | a woman who traveled the U.S speaking in support of the Populist party and women's suffrage |
| William McKinley | Republican candidate who won the 1896 presidential election; governor of Ohio; supported the gold standard (backed by industrialists and bankers) |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democratic candidate who lost the 1896 presidential election; supported free silver (backed by populist party) |
| Deflation | the price of everything goes down and interest rates go up |
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