History Chapter 13 Assessment – Flashcards
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Homestead Act
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Offering of 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household
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Sitting Bull
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Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie
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Assimilation
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A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture
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Morrill Act
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Gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges
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Exoduster
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African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
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George A. Custer
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Colonel, was killed by Native Americans in the battle of Little Bighorn
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William Jennings Bryan
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Nominated for president, Democrat, bimetallist
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William McKinley
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Nominated for president, Republican, supported the gold standard
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Populism
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the movement of the people
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Grange
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provided a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families; fought the railroads
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Identify three differences between the culture of the Native Americans and the culture of the white settlers on the Great Plains.
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Natives believed that land did not belong to anyone unlike the white settlers
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How effective was the Dawes Act in promoting the assimilation of Native Americans into white culture?
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Not very effective in making them give up their culture but was effective in breaking up tribes by giving some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans
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Why did the cattle industry become a big business in the late 1800s?
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There were plentiful herds and a great demand for the cattle for food so cowboys herded them for transportation
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How did cowboy culture reflect the ethnic diversity of the United States?
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African Americans, whites, and Mexicans all were able to pursue this profession
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What measures did the government take to support settlement of the frontier?
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Congress passed the Homestead Act, offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household.
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How did settlers overcome the challenges of living on the Great Plains?
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People built homes out of sod due to the lack of trees, used tools such as the reaper and steel plow to make farming easier, steel windmill to hydrate crops in the event of a drought
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What economic problems confronted American farmers in the 1890s?
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In February 1893, railroads went bankrupt; people panicked and traded paper money for gold. As a result, the stock market crashed.
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According to farmers and other supporters of free silver, how would bimetallism help the economy?
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more money in circulation, more people have money
