Chapter 5 Vocabulary

3. A monetary standard where the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent to both a certain quantity of gold and to a certain quantity of solver.
5. A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged upper class
7. African Americans who fled North Carolina because of economic and political grievances after the Reconstruction era.
9. U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man's image.
10. large herds of wild cattle that roamed texas suited also to the conditions of the great plains

1. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
2. The Great Plains, sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland.
4. An inexpensive house built of sod, most often on the Great Plains, because timber was scarce
6. It was a farmers' movement involving the affiliation of local farmers into area "granges" to work for their political and economic advantages.
8. a system by which cowboys herded cattle hundreds of miles north from Texas to Dodge City and the other cow towns of Kansas. Exodusters.