PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Populism
a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as hopes and fears) of the general people, especially contrasting those interests with the interests of the elite.
Inflation
a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency
Assimilation
the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being so adapted
Homestead Act
a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
Morrill (Land Grant) Act
either of two supplementary acts (1890 and 1907) in which Congress made direct financial grants to assist the land-grant colleges and universities.
Grange
a farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings.
Dawes Act
authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
Bimetallism
a system allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other.
Great Plains
High, extensive region of grassland in central North America
Exodusters
a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
Farmer's Alliance
was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875.
Gold standard
a monetary system where a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold
Transcontinental Railroad
It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah.
Sodbusters
a farmer or farm worker who plows the land.
Homesteaders
a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of foodstuffs, and it may or may not also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale.
Disenfranchised
1) deprive (someone) of a right or privilege.
2) deprived of power; marginalized.
3) deprive (someone) of the right to vote.
