The Great West & Agricultural Revolution Flashcards

634930349	Dawes Severalty Act 1887	movement to reform Indian policies, dissolved Indian tribes and gives Indian family heads 160 acres of land
634930350	Indian Recognition Act of 1934	partially reserved the individualistic approach and tried to restore the tribal basis of Indian life
634930351	Carlisle Indian School	school in PA where Native American children were taught English and white values and customs
634930352	Ghost Dance	a cult of native americans who believed they had immunity from the whites and were killed in the Battle of Wounded Knee
634930353	Sooners	entered Oklahoma illegally before it officially became a state
634930354	Boomers	waited on the state line when Oklahoma became a state
634930355	Bad Medicine Wagons	Native American term for trains that brought white settlers w/ troops, cattlemen, farmers, etc.
634930356	Eighty Niners	the people who waited on the boundary line of Oklahoma
634930357	Homestead Act of 1862	paid settlers to settle up to 160 acres in the west and improve it for 5 years, gov't would pay them $30
634930358	Safty-Valve Theory	when hard times came, the unemployed who cluttered the city streets merely moved west, took up farming and prospered
634930359	100th Meridian	ran North to South from the Dakotas to Texas and separated the well-watered East from the semi-arid West
634930360	"Dry Farming"	an organization to enhance the lives of farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activities
634930361	Farmers' Alliance	farmers came together to socialize and to break the strangling grip of railroads and manufacturers through cooperative buying and selling
634930362	Populism	political party, the "people's party", formed from the farmers' alliance, attacked wall street and the "money trust" and called for nationalizing the railroads, telegraph, instituting a graduated income tax, and creating a new federal subtreasury
634930363	Coxey's Army	led by Jacob Coxey, he and many unemployed workers and reported marched in D.C. and demanded to relieve unemployment by public works programs, not successful
634930364	Sitting Bull	defeated General Custer and American troops at the Battle of Little Big Horn, and American troops wanted revenge against him
634930365	Chief Joseph	leader of the Nez Perce Indians and had to return to Kansas after trying to flee to the continental divide
634930366	Colonel J.M. Chivington	massacred 400 Indians at Sank Creek, CO
634930367	Geronimo	leader of the Apache tribes, pushed to Mexico but eventually moved back to reservations in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma
634930368	General Sherman	leader at the Battle of Little Big Horn, defeated
634930369	General Custer	was defeated at Little Big Horn by a force of 2500 native americans after trying to get them to return to a reservation
634930370	Helen Hunt Jackson	MA writer, who sympathized with the Native Americans in her novel "A Century of Dishonor"
634930371	John Wesley Powell	geologist and explorer who warned that agriculture would be unsuccessful in the West
634930372	Fredrick Jackson Turner	writer of one of the most influential essays ever written, wrote about the closing of the frontier
634930373	Aaron Montgomery Ward	created one of the first mail order companies
634930374	Mary Elizabeth Lease	"Queen of the Populists" wanted to civilize Kansas before new states were made
634930375	William Jennings Bryan	democratic candidate, in favor of free silver, silver in a dollar worth $.50
634930376	Mark Hanna	supported McKinley, made a fortune in the iron business and believed the gov't should aid business
634930377	William McKinley	republican candidate, former congressman, major in civil war
634930378	Comstock Lode	An area in Nevada where a lot of gold and silver was found
634930379	Pike's Peak or Bust	Pike's peakers were people who rushed into Nevada to mine for gold, more miners than gold, could peak if found gold or bust if you didn't get a spot
634930380	Sand Creek	400 indians were massacred
634930381	Wounded Knee	ghost dance cult defeated after they believed they had immunity from white soldiers
634930382	Little Big Horn	battle where Sitting Bull defeated Sherman and Custer
634930383	New States Admitted	Colorado, North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming
634930384	Sioux War	Series of conflicts b/w the U.s. and the sioux indians ending with the massacre at wounded knee
634930385	The Long Drive	Texas cowboys driving cattle to the railroads