The old west honors american history

Assimilated

Absorbed into the main culture of society

Battle of Little Big Horn

1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. Army troops

William Jennings Bryan

(1860-1925) was a democratic and populist leader who ran unsuccessfully three times for the U.S. presidency. During his career as a lawyer, politician, and speaker, he fought for reforms such as the income tax, prohibition, and women’s suffrage

Dawes General Allotment Act

1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots

Exodusters

African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war

Expansionist

People who favor territorial growth

Farmer’s Alliance

network of farmers’ organizations that would for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s

Grange

farmers’ organization formed after the civil war

Homestead Act

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to persons willing to live or and cultivate it for five years

Indian Removal Act

Act passes by congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with the Native Americans in the southeast

Chief Joseph

(1840-1904) succeeded his father as chief of the New Percz in 1871. Six years later he led his followers on an unsuccessful flight to escape confinement on a reservation. First sent to Oklahoma, they were eventually returned to a new reservation in washington state. However Joseph was unable to secure their return to their tribal homeland

Oliver H. Kelly

(1826-1913) was an employee in the U.S. Department of Agriculture who worked to improve the lives of farmers and the agricultural industry recognized the need to bring farmers together to protect their livelihoods.Kelly served as the first secretary to the Grange from 1867 to 1878

Land grant

Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads

Manifest Destiny

The idea that the United States was destined by God to occupy territory spanning from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

William McKinley

(1843-1901) was the 25th president of the united states serving from 1897 to 1901. McKinley lead the United States during the spanish-American war in 1898. McKinley’s second term as president was cut short by an assassin in 1901.

Open range

Method of ranking in which the rancher allowed his or her livestock t roam and graze over a vest area of grassland

Populist Party

People’s party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms

Reservations

Public lands where Native Americans were required to live by the federal government

Sand Creek Massacre

1864 incident in which colorado ilita attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, some of who were under U.S. Army protection

Sitting Bull

(1831?-1890) was a war chief and important spiritual leader who became the first-ever chief of all the Lakota Sioux bands in the 1860s. After surrendering to the Army in 1881, he lived on a reservation where he was killed by Indian police sent to arrest him

Trails of Tears

Forced arch of the Cherokee Indians to move west of the mississippi n the 1830s

Transcontinental railroad

Rail link between the eastern and the western United States

Vigilante

Self-appointed law enforces

Wounded Knee

1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance