populism and native Americans

homestead act

Congress offering 160 acres of free land to any citizen or intended citizen who farmed the land for 5 years

Promontory Point, Utah

west and east meet transcontinental railroad is complete

who led the Naz Perces Indians and said “I will fight no more”

chief Joseph

Dawes Severalty Act

gov’t promised land to N.A. to farm if they assimilated to “white culture”

what was the end of the natives lifestyle

-destruction of the buffalo

what is the ghost dance movement

it called for return for a traditional way of life and challenged white dominance in society

what is the impact of wounded knee battle

the Indians era came to an end

what’s the homestead act

gave 160 acres of land to settlers if they improved the land and lived on it.

what the morrill land grant

law passed by congress july 1862 awarding proceeds from the sale of public lands to states for the establishment of agricultural colleges

what’s Fredrick Jackson Turner thesis about

experience of expansion into the frontier had stimulated individualism, nationalism and democracy, and kept the opportunity of advancement alive.