Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Unit 8.1- Changes on the Western Frontier 1877-1900






This whole Unit which is broken up into 4 chapter and 2 supplemental guides will assist you in the researching of the English and U.S. History Cross Curricular Research Paper. This Unit coincides with information presented in the Jungle.

Vocabulary Terms for the Vocab Quiz:

Assimilation
Central Pacific
Exodusters
George Armstrong Custer
Goals of the Populist Party
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Acts
Populism
Sitting Bull
The Grange

Union Pacific

Test Review-


  • Homestead Act
  • Populist Party
  • Exodusters
  • Collapse of Populism
  • Dawes Act
  • The Grange
  • Soddy
  • Oliver Hudson Kelley
  • Assimilation
  • Vaquero
  • Great Plains
  • Exoduster
  • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • Dawes Act
  • George A. Custer
  • Chisolm Trail
  • Morill Act
Essay: What explains the rise of the Populist Party in the 1890s? Were the Populists reflecting only farmers' discontent, or did they express a deeper disaffection with the weaknesses of the two-party system?

ADDITIONAL ESSAY FOR HONORS CLASS:
Essay: [HONORS]: Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites. Select and discuss at least three majors reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why. 

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