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United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school1860-1925)
  • Geronimo
  • Colonel J.M Chivington
  • Frontier Thesis
  • William Jennings Bryan
A group of white Christian reformist tried to bring Christian beliefs on to the Indians. Fearing the Ghost Dance American troops were called to go with the reformist. While camped outside of an Indian reservation a gun was fired and the troops stormed the reservation killing Indian men women and children.
  • Little Big Horn
  • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • Sitting Bull
  • William Jennings Bryan
Date: Indian Reorganization Act
  • 2034
  • 1934
  • 1939
  • 1935
African-American soldiers that formed one-fifth of the frontier soldiers after the Civil War, nicknamed for the resemblance between their hair and the buffaloes'.
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Sitting Bull
  • Comstock Lode
  • Little Big Horn
formed in 1892 by members of the Farmer's Alliance, this party was designed to appeal to workers in all parts of the country. Populists favored a larger role of government in American Society, a progressive income tax, and more direct methods of democracy.
  • Populist party
  • Farmers' alliance
  • Populists
  • Jim crow laws
an author who wrote A Century of Dishonor which chronicled the government's actions against the Indians. She also wrote Romona, which was a love story about Indians. Her writing helped inspire sympathy towards the Indians.
  • Chief Joseph
  • Helen Hunt Jackson
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Frederick Jackson Turner
where Native Americans were herded by the federal government after giving up their ancestral land for the promise of being left alone with food and clothingthey were never sufficiently taken care of)
  • Pullman Strike
  • Great Sioux Reservation
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Sand Creek Massacre
Signed by McKinley in 1900 and stated that all paper money must be backed only by gold. This meant that the government had to hold large gold reserves in case people wanted to trade in their money. Also eliminated silver coins in circulation.
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act
  • William Mckinley
  • Gold Standard Act
  • Reservation System
Geronimo, the leader of the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico, fought against the white man, who was trying to force the Apaches off of their land. Geronimo had an enormous hatred for the whites. He was, however, eventually pushed into Mexico where he surrendered
  • Geronimo
  • Sitting Bull
  • Chief Joseph
  • George Armstrong Custer
Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and fought and brought them back down to reservations
  • Geronimo
  • Helen Hunt Jackson
  • Chief Joseph
  • Sitting Bull
More than 1 million southern black farmers organized and shared complaints with poor white farmers. By 1890 membership numbered more than 250,The history of racial division in the South, made it hard for white and black farmers to work together in the same org.
  • Pullman Strike
  • Great Sioux Reservation
  • Colored Farmers National Alliance
  • Cross of Gold Speech
Native American Tribe that will flee capture from U.S. Troops, who almost make it to Canada.
  • Geronimo
  • Chief Joseph
  • Nez Perce
  • Apache
Date: Dingley Tariff Act
  • 1896
  • 1997
  • 1898
  • 1897
Date: Colorado admitted into Union
  • 1881
  • 1876
  • 1875
  • 1866
in Pennsylvania to educate and civilize Indians, motto = "Kill the Indian and save the man"
  • dry farming
  • Carlisle Indian School
  • Long Drive
  • Placer Mining
As the pop. Of US begins to increase there has always been a way to release pop. Pressure: West has always acted as a safety valve; by 1890 valve was gone... no more frontier
  • Sodbuster
  • Safety-valve theory
  • 1890 Census
  • Pullman Strike
imaginary line from the Dakotas to Texas dividing the East and the West
  • 50th meridian
  • 90th meridian
  • 200th meridian
  • 100th meridian
This was the first "national" organization of the farmers, which led to the creation of the Populist party. The Farmers' Alliance sponsored social gatherings, were active in politics, organized cooperatives, and fought against the dominance of the railroads and manufacturers.
  • Populists
  • Greenback Labor Party
  • Populist Party
  • Farmers' Alliance
in Chicago, Pullman cut wages but refused to lower rents in the "company town", Eugene Debs had American Railway Union refuse to use Pullman cars, Debs thrown in jail after being sued, strike achieved nothing
  • McKinley Tariff
  • Pullman Strike
  • Long Drive
  • dry farming
Supporters of Ohio populist Jacob Coxey who in 1894 marched on Washington, demanded that the government create jobs for the unemployed; although this group had no effect whatsoever on policy, it did demonstrate the social and economic impact of the Panic of 1893.
  • Apache
  • Coxey's Army
  • Farmers' Alliance
  • Populist party
Date: McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency
  • 1896
  • 1886
  • 1796
  • 1897
Date: Populist candidate James B. Weaver polls more than 1 million votes in presidential election
  • 1891
  • 1902
  • 1882
  • 1892
This law, passed in 1862, stated that a settler could acquire up to 160 acres of land and pay a minimal fee of $30.00 just for living on it for five years and settling it. A settler could acquire it for only six months and pay $1.25 an acre. This was important because previously land was being sold for profit and now it was basically being given away. About half a million families took advantage of this offer. Unfortunately, it was often too good to be true and the land was ravaged by drought and hard to cultivate.
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act
  • Granger laws
  • Sitting Bull
  • Homestead Act
Date: Oklahoma opened to settlement
  • 1989
  • 1789
  • 1879
  • 1889
One of the leaders of the Sioux tribe. He was a medicine man " as wily as he was influential." He became a prominent Indian leader during the Sioux Was from 1876-1877.( The war was touched off when a group of miners rushed into the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1875.) The well-armed warriors at first proved to be a superior force. During Custer's Last Stand in 1876, Sitting Bull was " making medicine" while another Indian, Crazy Horse, led the Sioux. When more whites arrived at the Battle of Little Big Horn, Sitting Bull and the other Sioux we forced into Canada.
  • William Mckinley
  • Sitting Bull
  • Geronimo
  • Chief Joseph
General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
  • Chief Joseph
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Sitting Bull
  • Little Big Horn
Political party devoted to improving the lives of laborers and raising inflation, reaching its high point in 1878 when it polled over a million votes and elected fourteen members of Congress.
  • Farmers' Alliance
  • Populists
  • Greenback Labor Party
  • Populist Party
the 1890s Peoples/Populist Party evolved from?
  • Farmers' Alliances
  • Populist party
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act
  • Gold Standard Act
the nickname given to farmers on the Great Plains because they used plows to break up the thick grasssod) and reach the soil below
  • Great Sioux Reservation
  • Placer Mining
  • Sodbuster
  • dry farming
mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredginglike panning for gold)
  • McKinley Tariff
  • Placer Mining
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Jim Crow Laws
Date: Battle of Wounded Knee
  • 1900
  • 1889
  • 1891
  • 1890
policy that took paper money used during the Civil War out of circulation.
  • Nez Perce
  • tight money
  • Ghost Dance
  • regulating railroads
25th President of the United States
  • Frontier Thesis
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • William McKinley
  • Sitting Bull
Date: Nez Perce Indian War
  • 1878
  • 1977
  • 1867
  • 1877
Date: Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor
  • 1886
  • 1881
  • 1871
  • 1882
Used the money he made in the iron business to support William McKinley's presidential campaign. He became a personification of big business in politics.
  • William Mckinley
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Mechanization Of Agriculture
  • Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Date: Oklahoma admitted to the Union
  • 1907
  • 1897
  • 1902
  • 2007
1887, dismantled American Indian tribes, set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres, tried to make rugged individualists out of the Indians, attempt to assimilate the Indian population into that of the American
  • Dawes Severalty Act
  • Dingley Tariff Bill
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act
  • fourth party system
The constitutional amendment adopted in 1913 that explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax.
  • Homestead Act
  • Sixteenth Amendment
  • Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
  • Gold Standard Act
The system that allotted land with designated boundaries to Native American tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Severalty Act ofWithin these reservations, most land was used communally, rather than owned individually. The U.S. government encouraged and sometimes violently coerced Native Americans to stay on the reservations at all times.635)
  • Homestead Act
  • reservation system
  • Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
  • fourth party system
Date: Homestead Act
  • 1867
  • 1863
  • 1762
  • 1862
a type of farming used to try and grow crop in drought stricken areas that created a finely pulverized surface which would contribute to the Dust Bowl
  • bonanza farms
  • long drive
  • dry farming
  • placer mining
Date: Local chapters of Farmer's Alliance formed
  • 1985-1890
  • 1875-1890
  • 1885-1890
  • 1895-1890
Date: New Indian peoples move onto Great Plains
  • 1700-1801
  • 1701-1800
  • 1700-1795
  • 1700-1800
Date: Indians granted US citizenship
  • 1924
  • 1919
  • 1923
  • 1914
Officially known as the People's party, the Populists represented Westerners and Southerners who believed that U.S. economic policy inappropriately favored Eastern businessmen instead of the nation's farmers. Their proposals included nationalizing the railroads, creating a graduated income tax, and most significantly the unlimited coinage of silver.657)
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Populists
  • Farmers' Alliance
  • Populist Party
When Texas cowboys drove herds numbering from 1,000 to 10,000 slowly over unfenced and unpeopled plains- this was called?
  • Dry Farming
  • Long Drive
  • Ghost Dance
  • Comstock Lode
Dates: Federal government tries to pacify the Plains Indiannsby signing treaties at Fort Latamie and Fort Atkinson. Marked the beginning of the reservation system.
  • 1851,1863
  • 1861,1853
  • 1846,1853
  • 1851,1853
He was chief of the Nez Perce Indians of Idaho. People wanting gold trespassed on their beaver river. To avoid war, and save his people Chief Joseph tried retreating to Canada with his people. They were cornered 30 miles from safety and he surrendered in 1877.
  • Crazy Horse
  • Granger laws
  • John Wesley Powell
  • Colonel J.M Chivington
Date: Federal government outlaws Indian SunDance
  • 1884
  • 1883
  • 1894
  • 1889
Native American-Indian tribe; 1870's; group from Arizona and New Mexico led by Geronimo were difficult to control; chased into Mexico by Federal troops; they became successful farmers raising stock in Oklahoma
  • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • Greenback Labor Party
  • Apache
  • Farmers' Alliances
Required the government to purchase an additional 4.5 million ounces of silver bullion each month for use as currency.
  • Farmers' Alliance
  • Mckinley Tariff
  • Gold Standard Act
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Date: National Grange organized
  • 1868
  • 1867
  • 1872
  • 1857
Date: Sand Creek Massacre
  • 1864
  • 1858
  • 1892
  • 1889
An impassioned address by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Deomcratic Convention, in which he attacked the "gold bugs" who insisted that U.S. currency be backed only with gold.
  • Cross of Gold Speech
  • Benjamin Harris
  • Carlisle Indian School
  • Comstock Lode
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