Standard 1 - Westward Expansion Flashcards
The process of making a group of people , such as American Indians , more like Americans in thought and customs. (Carlisle Indian School , Dawes Act , sometimes assimilation just happens sometimes it’s forced)
Assimilation
Belonged to the Hunkpapa band, one of seven Lakota Sioux groups that lived by hunting buffalo
Sitting Bull
A geologic formation below earth’s surface that can hold a large ground water reservoir (Ogallala Aquifer aka High Plains Aquifer is under 8 states).
Aquifer
Developed refrigerated cars for transporting food. (made shipping of meat and other farm products more profitable, after the invention of this, the cattle industry made big profit)
Gustavious Swift
gives a person the right to vote no matter the sex
19th amendment
A legal claim to a person’s property and income if debts aren’t paid
Liens
American Inventor of the first commercially successful barbed wire(barbed wire helped farmers but hurt cattle ranchers)
Joseph Glidden
a farming method of sowing seed deep in the soil and using dust above to keep in moisture
Dry Farming
a farmer whose land was owned by a landlord who provided seed , shelter and a small allowance exchange for half of the harvest plus interest
Tenant Farmer
Willful annihilation of a racial,political, of culture group (like what we did to native Americans)
Genocide
African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the civil war (Lead by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton)
Exodusters
Land set aside by the federal government for the Native Americans.
Reservations
A law that gave settlers 160 acres of public land in western territories on the condition that they built a home and farm within five years.
Homestead Act
(Government’s unlimited coining of silver for money, to try to create inflation) Farmers from the midwest were a big fan.
Free Silver Movement