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| 1036725223 | Homestead Act | bill that did much to encourage settlers to move west; 160 acres of land were given to any settler who was an American citizen or who had applied for citizenship, who was committed to farming the land for 6 months and who could pay the $10 registration fee for the land | 1 | |
| 1036725224 | Morrill Land Grant Act | bill that indirectly gave land to settlers; encourages the building of land grant colleges; land was given to state governments who then sold the land in order to pay for colleges | 2 | |
| 1036725225 | land speculators | those who buy property at a low price and sell it at a higher price, usually without spending much of their own money | 3 | |
| 1036725226 | bonanza farms | produced only 1 or 2 crops on them, were run as large businesses rather than personal farms because they were creating and selling produce for the nation not just for a family | 4 | |
| 1036725227 | Timber and Stone Act | bill that offered land in the Northeast that was unsuitable for farming to "settlers" at very cheap prices, lumber companies hired men from ports who had no interest in "settling" to buy forest land cheaply and then to transfer the ownership of the land to companies | 5 | |
| 1036725228 | Sioux | tribe that resisted the onrush of settlement most fiercely | 6 | |
| 1036725229 | Ghost Dances | Set of dances and rituals that Natives believed made the white men disappear and restore the Native American lands | 7 | |
| 1036725230 | Dawes Act | act designed to break up Native American tribes by offering individual Native land to be used for either farming or grazing | 8 | |
| 1036725231 | tight money policy | paper money used during the Civil War was taken out of circulation | 9 | |
| 1036725232 | gold standard | every dollar had to be backed by a close amount of gold held by the gov. | 10 | |
| 1036725233 | greenback party | supported getting more paper money into circulation, managed to elect several congressmen from farm states but got little support | 11 | |
| 1036725234 | Farmer's Alliance | organization that united framers at the statewide and regional levels; goals included more readily available farm credits and federal regulation of the railroads | 12 | |
| 1036725235 | policies endorsed by the Farmer's Alliance | -federal regulation of the railroad -putting more money in circulation -the establishment of a state department of agriculture in every state -readily available farm credits | 13 | |
| 1036725236 | Ocala Platform | stated the principles that motivated most political activity by farmers for the remainder of the century | 14 | |
| 1036725237 | Interstate Commerce Act | stated that the fed. gov. could regulate interstate railway rates | 15 | |
| 1036725238 | Sherman Antitrust Act | aimed to control the power of trusts and monopolies | 16 | |
| 1036725239 | Populist Party | intended to appeal to workers of all parts of the country, desired much greater role of gov. in American society, | 17 | |
| 1036725240 | Populist Party expressed support for.. | -the increase in circulation of money -a progressive income tax (rich eastern industrialists would pay the most & farmers would pay the least) -gov. ownership of communication and transportation systems -more direct methods of democracy -8 hour workday | 18 | |
| 1036725241 | exodusters | most prominent group of blacks who moved out west | 19 | |
| 1036725242 | Turner Thesis | thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner suggesting that the innovations practiced by western settlers gradually became ingrained into the fabric of American society; democracy and self-improvement were also central to western expansion, he suggested that characters of the "American character" were created because of western expansion | 20 |
