WW Expansion/Populism Vocabulary Test

Invented by Cyrus McCormick, helped transform the plains into the food producer of the nation, could cut and thresh wheat in one pass.

• Gilded Age

• Great Plains

• McCormick's Reaper

• Dawes Act

• Americanization

Period when corruption existed in society but was overshadowed by the wealth of the period from 1870s to 1890s; Mark Twain coined the term.

• Gilded Age

• Great Plains

• McCormick's Reaper

• Dawes Act

• Americanization

An education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture.

• Gilded Age

• Great Plains

• McCormick's Reaper

• Dawes Act

• Americanization

A vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North American, from Texas north to Canada and east of the Rocky Mountains

• Gilded Age

• Great Plains

• McCormick's Reaper

• Dawes Act

• Americanization

A law, enacted in 1887 that was intended to Americanize Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners.

• Gilded Age

• Great Plains

• McCormick's Reaper

• Dawes Act

• Americanization

A migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in northwestern Canada between 1896-1899.

• Farmers Alliance

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

A law enacted in 1862, provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for 5 years.

• Farmers Alliance

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

Groups of farmers, or those in sympathy of farming issues, who sent lecturers from town to town to educate people about agricultural and rural issues.

• Farmers Alliance

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the US, completed in 1869 at Promontory Point.

• Farmers Alliance

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

A law, enacted in 1887, that established the federal governments right to supervise railroad activities and created a 5 member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so.

• Farmers Alliance

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act