3.1 Farmers & Populism

Represented the farmer and working man. Government ownership of railroads, bimetallism, and direct election of senators.

• Populist Party

• Reservation System

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

Promised settlers cheap land (160 acres) if they settled or improved the land. Increased westward expansion

• Homestead Act

• Reservation System

• Populist Party

• Dawes Act

Setup with the purpose of "Americanizing" young Indians, by force.

• Reservation System

• Dawes Act

• American Indian Boarding Schools

• Homestead Act

Transcontinental railroad, discovery of precious metals, cheap land, and Indian relocation.

• Pull Factors of Westward Expansion

• Improvements to the West

• Populist Party

• Farmers Problems

Complete control of a product or service by one person or group. Ex. railroads in the west.

• Farmers Problems

• Monopoly

• Reservation System

• Improvements to the West

Forced Native American tribes to land with designated boundaries in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Act of 1887.

• Reservation System

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Cross of Gold Speech

Address by William Jennings Bryan promoting bimetallism to help farmers pay off their debts

• Pull Factors of Westward Expansion

• Farmers Problems

• Monopoly

• Cross of Gold Speech

Steel plow, barbed wire, and the windmill.

• American Indian Boarding Schools

• Improvements to the West

• Cross of Gold Speech

• Pull Factors of Westward Expansion

1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners with the goal of turning natives into farmers. Led to sell off of Indian lands.

• Reservation System

• Dawes Act

• Populist Party

• Homestead Act

Agricultural overproduction, scarcity of money, high shipping costs, debt, and rural isolation.

• Monopoly

• Farmers Problems

• Pull Factors of Westward Expansion

• Cross of Gold Speech