Granger Movement & Farmers Alliance

The Homestead Act: (choose 3)

• Encouraged westward settlement

• Granted 160 acres to every head of household

• Created Native Tension

• was an act which granted land to Natives

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

This innovation helped link the country's natural resources from the west with the factories on the east.

Which group united to reduce the power of railroads and banks over farmers?

• Farm Bureau

• Great Plains

• Democrats

• Farmers' Alliances

The ____________________ was an organization of African American farmers.

• Farmers' Alliance

• Colored Farmers' National Alliance

• Southern Alliance

• Farm Bureau

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

• Populist Party

• Reservation System

• Dawes Act

• 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

When was the Colored Farmers Alliance created?

• 1850s

• 1870s

• 1880s

• 1760s

A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent to the farm owner.

• sharecropper

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

• freedmen

By the 1890's, the Colored Farmers Alliance had how many members?

• 250,000

• 100,000

• 25,000

• 1,000,000