FLASHCARDS CH 3 Challenges in the West - US History

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Agricultural surplus

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Excessive amounts of agricultural production.

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Farmers Alliance

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Local organizations linked together and connected to farmers in the South and the West, where farmers of all races and ethnicities banded together for their common cause.

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Homestead Act (1862)

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The government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for 5 years, dig a well, and build a road. Encouraged settlement and farming in the West.

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Creation of agricultural colleges

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Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 gave land grants to states to establish agricultural colleges, promoting scientific farming methods and new developments.

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Morrill Land Grant Act

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1862, aimed to spur the development of better farming methods by establishing agricultural colleges.

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Exodusters

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Group of African Americans who moved to Kansas and Oklahoma, planting crops and founding all-black towns, inspired by the story of Moses.

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Assimilation

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The cultural "Americanized" Native Americans, transforming Native American culture to European-American culture between 1790 and 1920.

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Bonanza Farm

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An enormous farm on which a single crop is grown.

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Boom town

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Built almost overnight for large numbers of people rushing to California during the Gold Rush.

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Dawes Act

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This was important for tribal life because it helped to reduce the tribes' ability to live in their traditional ways. This ended communal ownership of the land and parceled it up into pieces to be owned by individual Native Americans.