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TCI Lesson 12
Change and Conflict in the American West
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| transcontinental railroad | a railroad that spans the continent |
| Populist Party | a political party founded in 1892 calling for policies to help working people, such as government ownership of railroads and coinage of silver |
| Homestead Act | an 1862 federal law that granted tracts of land called homesteads to western settlers who agreed to work the land and live on it for five years |
| Exoduster | African Americans who migrated from the South to the Great Plains following the Civil War |
| Dawes Act | an 1887 federal law distributing land to Indigenous individuals rather than to tribes, thereby encouraging Indigenous people to become assimilated |
| Chisholm Trail | the cattle-drive trail from San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas |
| gold standard | a monetary policy requiring that every paper dollar in circulation be backed by a dollar's worth of gold in the U.S. Treasury |
| populism | a political philosophy that favors the common person's interests over those of wealthy people or business interests |
| vaquero | a Mexican cowboy |
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