Chapter 13 Flashcards
George A. Custer
reported that the Black Hills had gold, starting a gold rush
Dawes Act
attempted to “Americanize” Native Americans by breaking up reservation and giving some of the land to NA and others sold to settlers, the income would be used by NA to buy farm implements
Battle of Wounded Knee
- Custer’s regiment rounded up Sioux Indians and took them to a camp and demanded that the NA give up their weapons and a shot was fired
- brought the end to Indian wars
Chisholm Trail
major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, though Oklahoma to Kansas
long drive
overland transport of animals that usually lasted three months
exodusters
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas
bonanza farms
enormous single-crop spreads created to help farmers repay their loans and make profits
Oliver Hudson Kelley
started the Patrons of Husbandry, later known as the Grange (organization for farmers)
bimetallism
monetary system in which the government gave citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks
gold standard
backing dollars solely with gold
gold bugs
- bankers and businessmen
- deflation
- gold standard
- loans would be repaid in stable money, less money in circulation
silverites
- farmers and laborers
- inflation
- bimetallism
- products would be sold at higher prices, more money in circulation
William Jennings Bryan
- Cross of Gold Speech
- favored free silver
William McKinley
- Republican
- supported gold standard
- his election bought the end of Populism
