American West Terms (1850 to 1890).

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American West Terms (1850 to 1890)

Manifest Destiny

Great Plains (Great American Desert)

Transcontinental Railroad

Chinese or Irish/Black railroad workers

Homestead Act

Morrill Land Grant Act

Miners

Cowboys

Farmers

John Deere’s Steel Plow

Cyrus McCormick’s Mechanical Reaper

Barbed Wire (John Glidden)

Windmill

Dry Farming

Telegraph

Trail of Tears

Cattle Drives

Oklahoma (Indian Reservation)

Death of the Buffalo

Sand Creek Massacre

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

General Custer v. Sitting Bull

Little Big Horn

Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee

Helen Hunt Jackson

Old Policy- Forced Removal

New Policy- Assimilation

-Assimilation -Private Land Dawes (Severalty) Act -Assimilation -Private Land

Oklahoma Land Rush

The Grange

Farmer’s Alliance

Populist Party (Western Farmers Political Party)

The Omaha Platform (Populist Party Ideals) -Secret Ballot -Direct Election of Senators -Bi-Metalism -Banking Reform -Gov’t Ownership of Railroads -Income Tax 8 Hour Workday

Bi-Metallisim

William Jennings Bryan

Cross of Gold Speech

Election of 1896

Mormons in Utah (Led by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young)

Munn v. Illinois

Interstate Commerce Act

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