Farmers' Challenges & the West

Question 1

Frontier

Answer 1

The westward area

Question 2

Great Plains

Answer 2

The great farming land in the middle of the map

Question 3

Push-and-Pull Factors

Answer 3

Pushes them from their native land and pulls them to somewhere new.

Question 4

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 4

A train route across the U.S

Question 5

Indian Wars

Answer 5

Wars started to push the natives away from their land

Question 6

Reservations

Answer 6

Places natives were forced to move to do the union can use their land for cropping

Question 7

Buffalo Soldiers

Answer 7

What natives called black soldiers

Question 8

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 8

War going after the natives

Question 9

Sioux Indians

Answer 9

Famous native tribe

Question 10

Little Bighorn

Answer 10

Last time natives were successful in war

Question 11

Wounded Knee

Answer 11

Last time they put up a fight

Question 12

Homestead Act

Answer 12

encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.

Question 13

Boomtown

Answer 13

Over populated town

Question 14

Open Range

Answer 14

a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers

Question 15

Barbed Wire

Answer 15

A metal weft created to guard houses, and farms

Question 16

Sod House

Answer 16

House made of mud

Question 17

Dawes Act

Answer 17

authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

Question 18

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Answer 18

Implement silver as well

Question 19

Grange movement

Answer 19

Farmers grouping together to put an end to pressure and increase inflation

Question 20

Granger laws

Answer 20

Laws passed by those farmers who made it into congress

Question 21

Interstate commerce Act

Answer 21

Regulate the railroad industry, and what the charges the states

Question 22

Populist party

Answer 22

represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processers, corporations, and the politicians

Question 23

Omaha Platform

Answer 23

party program adopted at the formative convention of the Populist

Question 24

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 24

Leader of the pop party

Question 25

“Cross of Gold” speech

Answer 25

FREE THE SILVER !!

Question 26

Bimetallism

Answer 26

a system allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals

Question 27

Inflation

Answer 27

a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

Question 28

Pacific Railway Act

Answer 28

promoted the construction of a “transcontinental railroad”