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Chapter 14 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grange | The goal was to provide a social outlet and educational forum for isolated farmers. |
| Patrons of Husbantry | The country's first nationwide farm organization, morphed into Grnage |
| Farmers Alliance | wanted government control over Railroads and banks, created Cooperatives. The farmers worked together. |
| Cooperatives | group of farmers who work together to buy supplies., sell products, and share risks. |
| Subtreasury System | A System designed to help farmers avoid selling crops at low prices by providing federal loans in exchange for storing their harvest in government warehouses. |
| Colored Farmers Alliance | An organization created to help black people improve their economic conditions and gain better access to agricultural resources. |
| Populism | political movement to gain more political and economical power for farmers and labors |
| Populist Party | political power needed to make a change (organization) |
| The Little Bighorn | a river in Montana |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | killed 2,000 Sioux involved Custer & 7th cavalry, Natives Win. |
| Chief Joseph | Nez Perce, lived in the Pacific Northwest , refused to relocate to a small reservation in Idaho |
| Geronimo | Southwest Apache leader, resisted forced government confinement (arrested and imprisoned by U.S army.) |
| Genocide | deliberate of killing of a large group of people in it;s culture. |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | A century of Dishonor 1881, (Author) wanting Congress to improve Natives Lives. |
| Assimilate | to blend into a different culture and adopt another culture. |
| Dawes Act | Aims to "Americanize" Native Americans broke up reservations, and gave 160 acres to each head of household |
| Fredrick Jackson Turner | Wrote the Turner Thesis: the significance of the frontier in American History |
| Buffalo Bill Cody | American soldier, bison hunter & Showman(killed 4,000 buffalo) |