Boom and Bust
Commerce Farming
Panic of 1873
Hatch Act
All the traffic will bear
The Crédit Mobilier scandal
The White Caps Pacific Railroad Acts Swift and Armor Checkerboard Pattern Farmer’s Cooperative Farmer’s Alliance Grange/Patrons of Husbandry Granger Laws Munn Vs. Illinois Wabash Vs. Illinois Interstate Commerce Commission Dry Farming Joseph Glidden Morill Land Grant Act Crop Lien Debt Peonage Tenant Farmer New South Populist Party |
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Document F:
Cattle Kingdom- the open-range cattle industry that
stretched from Texas into Montana in
In the 1870s and 1880s.
Cow tows- Speaks for itself, it was just a town full of
cows
Harsh Winters of 1885-87- mainly known for its effects on
the Western US and its cattle
Open
Range- Where cattle
roam freely regardless of land property ownership
Range Wars- type of armed conflict typically undeclared,
which occurs within agrarian or
Stock rearing societies.
Refrigerated railroad cars- a piece of railroad rolling
stock designed to carry perishable
Freight at specific temperatures.
Document G:
James B. Weaver- Was a US politician and member of the
US House of Representatives,
Representing Iowa, member of the Greenback Party
“Pitchfork” Ben Tillman- American politician who served as
the 84th governor of South
Carolina.
Populist/People’s Party- a short-lived political party in
the US
established in 1891 during
The Populist Movement
Greenback/Labor Party- An American political party with an
anti-monopoly ideology
Document H:
Boom and bust cycles- A type of cycle experienced by an
economy characterized by
Alternating
periods of economic growth and contraction
Frederick Jackson Turner- Historian who promoted
interdisciplinary and quantitative
Methods often regarding the Midwest
Homestead Act Impact- Homestead settlers of the
environmentally challenging Great Plai
Reverse Migration- phenomenon of bird migration
Sod house frontier-Corollary to the log cabin during
frontier settlement of Canada
and US
Desert Land Act- to encourage and promote the economic
development of the arid and
Semiarid public lands of West states
Document I:
Dawes Severalty Act- Authorized the president to survey
Indian tribal land and divide it
Into
allotments for individual Indians
Indian Territory- the relocation of the indigenous peoples
of the Americas
who held
Aboriginal title to their land.
Fort Laramie Treaty- Agreement guaranteeing to the Lakota
ownership of the Black Hills
And further South Dakota.
Document J:
Bimetallism- monetary standard in which the value of the
monetary unit is defined as
Equivalent
Dingley Tariff- raised tariffs in US to counteract the
Wilson-Gorman Tariff, which had
Lowered rates
Specie Resumption Act- |
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