WesternVocabulary: Use the LEAP Workbook Ch 2 to find words.

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  1. 4. organizations through which farmers united to help one another economically and politically.
  2. 7. occurred when the US government opened what had previously been Native American territory to white settlement.
  3. 8. law passed by Congress restricting Chinese immigration. The law was not repealed until 1943.
  4. 17. made it possible to farm the tough prairie terrain of the West, helping to make farming a key western industry.
  5. 18. people who did not like immigrants because they felt they drove down wages by offering cheap labor.
  6. 20. the name given the period after the Civil War in which many African
  7. 21. made it possible for farmers to pump water from deep, underground water sources to the surface, allowing them to water their crops and farm successfully.
  8. 23. a political movement that supported farmers and the “common man.”
  9. 24. a system that promoted unrestricted currency using two metals, such as gold and silver.
  10. 25. government lands to which Native Americans were forced to move and on which they were forced to live.
  11. 27. was the Native Americans’ last great victory over the US Army and resulted in the massacre of George A. Custer and over two hundred of his men.
  12. 29. a fiery speaker and political leader who won the 1896 Democratic nomination for president. He was endorsed by the Populists but lost to Republican William McKinley.
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  1. 1. performed by Native Americans hoping it would bring back the buffalo.
  2. 2. a law passed by Congress in 1887 meant to assimilate Native Americans into US culture. It failed because most Native Americans did not want to become farmers or end their tribal affiliations.
  3. 3. discovery of gold in the West made mining a very important industry and led to the establishment of mining camps that grew into towns.
  4. 5. The Sand Creek Massacre occurred when US soldiers attacked Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek and killed 270 Native Americans, many of which were women and children.
  5. 6. distributed millions of acres of land to state governments.
  6. 9. a major western industry due to available land and the fact that white settlers learned the ranching techniques of Mexicans who already lived and raised cattle in the Southwest.
  7. 10. made fencing possible for farmers in the West, despite the lack of timber.
  8. 11. granted 160 acres of land for people to cultivate and receive ownership of it after five years.
  9. 12. a famous speech given by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention, in which he called for free silver.
  10. 13. was completed in 1862 and connected eastern railroads to western railroads, making transcontinental rail travel possible.
  11. 14. the position that the US government should base the US dollar on silver as well as gold. Populists eventually adopted the cause of free silver.
  12. 15. the last major armed conflict between US soldiers and Native Americans. It ended with 150 Native American men, women, and children being killed by US troops at Wounded Knee Creek.
  13. 16. African American soldiers who served admirably and had a reputation among Native Americans as brave fighters.
  14. 19. relied on by the Plains Indians for food, clothing, and shelter. Ranching, railroads, and white settlement led to a decrease in the buffalo population and greatly impacted the Plains Indians.
  15. 22. allowed farmers and ranchers to import goods from and export goods to important eastern markets.
  16. 26. left the South and moved west.
  17. 28. referred to paper money.