Chapter 17 Section 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

homestead act

Answer 1

gave government owned land to small farmers

Question 2

morrill act

Answer 2

granted more than 17 million acres of land to the states

Question 3

exodusters

Answer 3

southerners who made a mass departure from the south

Question 4

sodbusters

Answer 4

nickname for people who worked breaking up the sod

Question 5

dry farming

Answer 5

a new method of farming that shifted the focus off water dependent crops and onto sturdier crops

Question 6

Annie Bidwell

Answer 6

used her influence to support a variety of moral and social causes like women’s suffrage and temperance

Question 7

national grange

Answer 7

social and educational organization for farmers (grangers)

Question 8

deflation

Answer 8

decrease in the money supply and overall lower prices

Question 9

william jennings bryan

Answer 9

political candidate who favored free silver coinage

Question 10

populist party

Answer 10

political party founded by farmers which called for the government to own railroads and telephone and telegraph systems