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TCI Lesson 12
Change and Conflict in the American West
Question | Answer |
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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 |