Westward Expansion

the process in which a minority group adopts the beliefs, ways of life, attitudes, and cultures of the popluation

• Assimilation

• Exodusters

• Agrarian Movement

• Bimetalism

enacted in 1887, this act tried to "Americanize" or assimilate Native Americans.

• Populist Act

• Homestead Act

• Assimilation Act

• Dawes Act

an African american who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years

• Populist

• Mestizo

• Exodusters

• Indodusters

a prophet promised that if this ritual was performed, Native American lands would be restored

• Rain Dance

• Ghost Dance

• Pow Wow

• Storm Stomp

One effect of the _________ was that it encouraged many settlers to head out west

• Homestead Act

• Mining Towns

• Agrarian Movement

• Populist Movement

a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th century

• The Grange

• Populist Movement

• Homestead Act

• Agrarian Movement

a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th century

• Patrons of Husbandry

• The Agrarian Movement

• Populism

• Westward expansion

a late 19th century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers

• Populism

• The Grange

• Assimilation

• The Gold Rush

Its advocates were in favor of an inflationary monetary policy using the "free coinage of silver" as opposed to the less inflationary gold standard;

• free silver

• economics

• command economy

• market economy

He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party

• William Jennings Bryan

• Sam Houston

• Santa Anna

• Chief Joseph