Vocab Flashcards
Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Treaty requiring the Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
Great Plains
The Grassland extending through the west central portion of the United States.
Sitting Bull
Leader of Hunkpapa Sioux.
George A. Custer
An American Army general who famously lost his life at hands of Native American warriors at the battle of Little Bighorn.
Assimilation
A plan where Native Americans would give up beliefs and way of life to join White Culture.
Dawes Act
Act that broke up reservation and gave some land to Individual Native Americans - 160 acres to each head of household.
Homestead Act
African Americans who moved from the post-reconstruction of South to Kansas.
Soddy
Dugout; sod home, warm in winter and cool in summer. Unprotected.
Morrill Act
Gave the federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
Bonanza Farm
Enormous single-crop spreads of 15,000-50,000 acres.
Grange
An organisation for farmers that became popularly known as Grange.
Oliver Hudson Kelley
Started Patrons of Husbandry.
Farmers’ Alliance
An organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in the 1870’s and the 1880’s.
Populism
Movement of the people - was born with the founding of the populist.
Bimetallism
A monetary system in which the government would give citizens gold in exchange.
