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US CH5 Vocab

US History(Honors) CH 5-Study Guide-Changes on the Western Frontier

DefinitionTerm or Name
A home built of blocks of turf Soddy
A vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains Great Plains
A law enacted in 1887 that was intended to "Americanize" Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners Dawes Act
Founder of Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange Oliver Hudson Kelley
An African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstructional year Exoduster
American Colonel, crushed in the Battle of Little Bighorn George A. Custer
A minority group's adoption of the beliefs and the way of life of the dominate culture Assimilation
The massacre by U.S. soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans at _(answer)_ Creek, South Dakota Wounded Knee
The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas Chisholm Trail
Spanish rancher from Mexico Vaquero
Former Nebraska Congressman, delivered "Cross of Gold" speech, Democrat Presidential candidate in 1896 William Jennings Bryan
Laws enacted in 1862 and 1890 to help create agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states Morrill Act
The use of both gold and silver as the basis for a national monetary system Bimetallism
Law enacted in 1862, that provides 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years Homestead Act
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