Chapter 26 vocab terms.
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| 19916520 | Chief Joseph | Nez Perce; tried to flee to Canada; surrendered | |
| 19916521 | Ghost Dance | Indian dance for ancestors' guidance (not war dance) | |
| 19916522 | Battle of Wounded Knee | Sioux and American batle; after Ghost Dance | |
| 19916523 | Sooner State | Oklahoma's nickname | |
| 19916524 | Long Drive | cattle drivers along railroads to "cow towns" | |
| 19916525 | Bonanza Farms | large-scale farms; big business | |
| 19916526 | Pullman Strike | by Pullman Palace Co.; over reduced wages | |
| 19916527 | Gold Standard Act | gold standard established; stopped bimetallism (McKinley) | |
| 19916528 | Dingley Tariff Bill | raised tariffs exponentially to make revenue | |
| 19916529 | colored farmers | group excluded from Farmers' Alliance | |
| 19916530 | national alliance | combination of groups for farm price crisis | |
| 19916531 | Populist Party | (People's Party) opposed gold standard; popular with Western farmers | |
| 19916532 | Coxey Army | marching unemployed; tried to draw government attention | |
| 19916533 | Farmers' Alliance | group for farmers' rights | |
| 19916534 | Granger laws | regulations badly drawn but passed through Congress | |
| 19916535 | Homestead Act | 160 acres - if improved, 5 years, $30 fee | |
| 19916536 | National Grange | farmer group angry over prices, helped each other | |
| 19916537 | Comstock Lode | discovery of silver/ gold in Nevada | |
| 19916538 | Little Big Horn | battle where Custer was killed (Sioux); Sioux victory | |
| 19916539 | Dawes Severalty Act | gave land to Indians under conditions; assimilation | |
| 19916540 | William Jennings Bryan | "Cross of Gold" speech; for farmers, silver | |
| 19916541 | William McKinley | 25th president; assassinated | |
| 19916542 | Buffalo Soldier | black Army personnel (named for bison's furry coat) | |
| 19916543 | Jacob Coxey | socialist; "General", "Populist", Greenbacks | |
| 19916544 | James Weaver | Populist nominee; House Representative (Iowa); opposed gold standard, national banks | |
| 19916545 | Frederick Jackson Turner | historian - The Significance of the Frontier in American History | |
| 19916546 | Mary E. Lease | temperance; Populist; lecturer; writer; political activist; "Mary Yellin" | |
| 19916547 | Oliver H. Kelley | founded Order of Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange) | |
| 19916548 | Helen Hunt Jackson | writer - Ramona (about ill treatment of Indians) | |
| 19916549 | Geronimo | Apache leader; fought against reduction of Indian land | |
| 19916550 | George Custer | American General/ Colonel; Battle of Little Big Horn | |
| 19916551 | Sitting Bull | Sioux leader; Battle of Little Big Horn | |
| 19916552 | safety-valve theory | theory that the unemployed in the city moved West and prospered through farming |
