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  1. 2. a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
  2. 4. wire, a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands
  3. 8. of wouned knee, the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops
  4. 9. commerce act, United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
  5. 13. railroad, railway that would link the United States from east to west.
  6. 15. a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
  7. 17. the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group.
  8. 18. party, a left-wing agrarian populist late-19th-century political party in the United States.
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  1. 1. act, several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
  2. 3. point, a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States
  3. 5. Act, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
  4. 6. a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year.
  5. 7. a farmers' association organized in 1867
  6. 8. a system of allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (e.g. gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other.
  7. 10. v ferguson, a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws
  8. 11. v illinois, a Supreme Court decision that severely limited the rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce.
  9. 12. act, made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens.
  10. 14. wars, the First Nations Wars in Canada and is the collective name for the various armed conflicts that were fought by European governments and colonists
  11. 16. horse, a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century.
  12. 19. a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.