US History Final exam 2
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- Great Plains
- the grassland extending through the west-central portion of the US
- Homestead Act
- passed in 1862; Congress offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who would live on it and cultivate it for at least five years
- exoduster
- blacks who moved from the post- reconstruction south to Kansas in a great exodus
- Sand Creek Massacre
- an attack by US soldiers on a Cheyenne encampment in the Colorado Territory in 1864 in which 200 Native American men, women, and children were killed
- Sitting Bull
- (Tatanka Yotanka) a medicine man and leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux who never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie
- Geroge A. Custer
- civil war hero and colonel in the Seventh Calvary
- assimilation
- a plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture
- Dawes Act
- in 1887, passed to try to make assimilation the government policy
- Ghost Dance
- a Native American ritual in tended to bring about the restoration of tribal life, popular among the Sioux prior to the Battle of Wounded Knee
- Battle of Wounded Knee
- the 1890 massacre by US soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, SD
- longhorn
- a breed of sturdy, long horned cattle brought to Mexico by the Spanish and suited to the dry conditions of the N.West
- James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
- scout and spy during the Civil War and a marshal in Abilene, Kansas; violent man who shot and killed while card playing
- Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane)
- expert markswoman who dressed as a man
- long drive
- the moving of cattle over trails to a shipping center
- homesteader
- settlers on the free land of the Homestead Act
- soddy
- like a dugout or a sod home in the broad flat plians made with stacking blocks and prarie turf
- Morrill Land Grant Acts
- 1862 and 1890 which gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges
- bonanza farm
- enormous single crop spreads of 10000 acres or more
- Hatch Act of 1887
- established agricultural experiment stations to communicate new developments in agriculture to farmers in every state
- Oliver Kelly
- a farmer who started the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867
- Grange
- Patrons of Husbandry/ an organization of farmers for social outlet and educational forums
- Populism
- the movement of the people which bore the Populist's or People's Party in 1892
- bimetalism
- a policy in which the government would give people either silver or gold in exchange for paper currency or checks
- William McKinley
- a republican Ohioan that was nominated for president in 1896
- William Jennings Bryan
- a former member of Congress who delivered the "Cross of Gold" speech and the editor of the Omaha World - Herald magazine
- "Cross of Gold" speech
- a peech that targeted the "gold bugs" who insisted the US currency be backed with only gold
- The Panic of 1893
- After farmers and businesspeople had overextended themselves with debts and loans a panic occurred for the economy
- Edwin L. Drake
- succesfully used a steam engien to drill for oil near Titusville, PA
- Bessemer process
- a cheap efficient process for making steel developed around 1850
- Thomas Alva Edison
- became the first pioneer on the new industrial frontier hen he established the world's first research lab in Menlo Park, NJ