Chapter 13-14 Vocab Words Great Plains Sitting Bull Assimilation Dawes Act Battle of Wounded Knee George Custer Homestead Act Exoduster Grange Farmers Alliances Populism Bimetallism Gold standard William McKinley William Jennings Bryan Bessemer Process Thomas Edison Transcontinental Railroad George Pullman Interstate Commerce Act
Sitting Bull: Indian chief that defeated George Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn George Custer: U.S. Colonel that was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn William McKinley: 25th President of the U.S. who ran on the Republican ticket and supported the gold standard. William Jennings Bryan: Politician who ran for president in the 1896 election; delivered the “Cross of Gold” speech where he supported bimetallism. Thomas Edison: established the world’s 1st research lab in Menlo Park, NJ; invented such things as the light bulb. George Pullman: built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars.