1. Going West

2. Homestead Act act that offered free land to western settlers

3. exodusters African American settlers in the West

4. soddy a frontier home, usually dug into a hill or made from sod

5. Morrill Act Act that helped establish agricultural colleges

6. bonanza farm large, single crop farms

7. Great Plains the grassland region of the US

8. Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868 treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation

9. Sitting Bull leader of Hunkpapa Sioux

10. George A Custer Colonel in US Calvary

11. Battle of Little Big Horn 1876 - Battle of Little Big Horn Sioux Indians defeat Custer (Custer dies) The US is mad!

12. assimilation name of plan to make Native Americans part of white culture

13. Dawes Act law that broke up Native American Reservations

14. Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 US massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota end of native americans.....

15. longhorn sturdy cattle accustomed to dry grasslands

16. Chisholm Trail major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas

17. long drive three month long overland transport of cattle

18. Politics of the West

19. Grange Organization that fought for farmer’s rights

20. Oliver Hudson Kelley Farmer who founded the Grange

21. Farmers’ Alliances Groups of farm organizations

22. A major political party is born! + Grange Farmer’s Alliance Grange Populist Party

23. Populism Political movement that sought advancement for farmers and laborers

24. bimetallism backing money with silver AND gold

25. gold standard backing dollars solely with gold

26. Populist Party things to help the average farmer... 1. direct elections of senators 2. more control over Railroad shipping rates (they were ripping off the farmers) 3. bimetallism (makes loans easier to come by) 4. private voting (so no one can see who you are voting for...) 5. no more national bank What they wanted....

27. 1896 There is an election

28. William McKinley 1896 Republican presidential nominee refused to participate - ran his campaign from his front porch

29. William Jennings Bryant 1896 Populist/Democratic presidential nominee Active campaigning - fiery speeches

30. William Jennings Bryant Famous Cross Of Gold speech You (wealthy easterners, bankers) cannot crucify my people (farmers) on a cross of gold! (using gold standard- not using bimetallism)

32. McKinely wins but the ideas of the Populist Party are important. The Democrat and the Republican Party will try to absorb some of those ideas