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chapter 14 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allowed 160 free acres to any head of household | homestead act of 1862 |
| Was mostly made up of chinese people and was a main company of the transcontinental railroad | central pacific |
| was a main company of the trans continental railroad | union pacific |
| has two main companies,led to rapid settlement in the west, many cities own their existence to this, and it began to tie americ a together ima national economy. | transcontinental railroad |
| the fist mail order catalog | montgomery ward |
| started as a mail order catalog then became a business | sears |
| a pilot program | Rural free delivery(RFD) |
| african americans who moved from post reconstruction on south to kansas | exodusters |
| homes dug out of the side or hills | dugouts |
| freestanding homes made of turf | soddies |
| invented a steel plow that could slice though heavy metal. | John Deere |
| massed produced a reaping machine | cyrus mcormick |
| became increasingly profitable | cattle ranches |
| a famous market for beef | chicago union stock yards |
| how thousands of cattle came from texas to kansas | chisholm trail |
| where cattle would bord the trail | abilene , kansas |
| great american dessert | the great plains a re aired and unfit for farming |
| late 1800s new farming technology turned region into fertile “bread basket” | transformation |
| massive underground water source, enabled irrigation for crops | ogallala aquifer |
| started the patrons of husbandry, an organization for farmers that became known as the grange. | oliver hudson kelly |
| a farmers organization that sent most of their time fighting the railroads | the grange |
| a party stared by leaders of farmers organizations, founded in 1892, proposed economical and political reforms | the populist party |
| the movement of the people | populism |
| increase of money supply, arise in crop prices, lower taxes, and a federal loan program | economic reforms |
| The direct election of senators, single terms for presidents | political reforms |
| railroads went bankrupt the stock market lost its value and many many businesses and banks collapsed | panics of 1893 |
| people who wee in favor of using both gold and silver to back up the money system | bimetallism |
| republic canidite and favored jsut gold | william mckinley |
| Democrat candidate, favored bimetallism, had the famous cross of gold speech, and won the 1896 election | william j bryan |
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