The West Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• Replaced the Reservation System an allotment system which gave Native American families 160 acres.

• Populism

• The Populist Party’s presidential candidate in the 1896 and 1900 presidential election.

• Homestead Act

• A political movement that began in the late 19th century that was led by farmers.

• Dawes Act

• Allowed states to open agricultural and mechanical colleges and universities.

• Morrill Act

• Passed in 1862, this act offered a 160 acre lot to anyone that agreed to live on it for 5 years.

• William Jennings Bryan

Battle between Col. Custer and Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull’s forces; known as Custer's Last Stand

The U.S. Federal government forcibly set Native Americans into these small areas where they faced suppression, poverty, and stripping of their culture.

The act of converting one group into another’s culture. Ex. Native Americans to white culture

This battle was over the Ghost Dance ritual and ended the wars with the Native Americans in the West

Built in link the country together by the Union and Central Pacific RR companies, it met in Promontory Point, Utah.