Gilded Age

Homestead Act

• Kept people home instead of heading west
• Caused people to return to Europe
• Was vetoed by Lincoln
• Gave people 160 acres if they lived there 5 years

Morrill Land Grant Act 

• Gave away land to Indians
• Gave away land to settlers
• Gave away land to build schools
• Gave away land to build Agriculture Colleges

Little Bighorn

• Sioux get defeated by Custer
• Sioux ran away to Canada
• Sioux defeat Custer and the 7th Cavalry
• Sioux are placed on reservation here

Wounded Knee

• 7th Cavalry is massacred here
• Sioux go into reservation here
• Sioux in reservation here are massacred
• Sioux are feed here

Dawes Act

• Sioux Indians massacred here
• Indians are assimilated by this
• Indians are killed by this
• Indians are moved on Trail of Tears

Entrepenuers

• Business leaders, starts companies
• Loud Band
• Deadbeats
• Made fortune in steel

The most significant problem for farmers in the late 19th century was which of the following?

• high tariffs, low exports
• poor machinery, low production
• tight credit, high interest
• too many regulatory laws

One limitation on the amount of money in circulation in the late 19th century was which of the following?

• Mc Kinley Act
• Granger Laws
• free coinage of silver
• gold standard

Which of the following was the pre-Populist organization to help address farmer's economic needs as well as education and social isolation?

• Progressives
• Democrats
• Republicans
• Grange

In what decade were the Populists founded?

• 1890s
• 1920s
• 1940s
• 1780s