Vocabulary 1 by Keonna Murphy https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx American History 2 en-us 2017-02-06 21:05:12 UTC 2024-08-14 13:54:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png Populism- a political doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as hopes and fears) of the general population keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151978051 2017-02-06 21:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151978051 Inflation- a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151985428 2017-02-06 21:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151985428 Assimilation- the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151986229 2017-02-06 21:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151986229 Homestead Act- were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151986604 2017-02-06 21:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151986604 Morrill (Land Grant) Act- are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151986872 2017-02-06 21:50:42 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151986872 Dawes Act-authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151987895 2017-02-06 21:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151987895 Bimetallism- economic term for a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent to certain quantities of two metals, typically gold and silver, creating a fixed rate of exchange between them keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151987985 2017-02-06 21:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151987985 Gold Standard- a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151988333 2017-02-06 21:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151988333 Great Plains- inhabited by Native Americans, who hunted the teeming herds of buffalo that roamed the grasslands and, due to wholesale slaughter by settlers and the U.S. army, were nearly extinct by the end of the 19th cent keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151988470 2017-02-06 22:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151988470 Exodusters- a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. It was the first general migration of blacks following the Civil War. keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151988895 2017-02-06 22:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151988895 Farmer's Alliance- an informal name for various regional political organizations that farmers established in the 1880s and that led to the formation of the Peoples' party in 1891–92. keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151989357 2017-02-06 22:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151989357 Transcontinental Railroad- was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed in the United States between 1863 and 1869 west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa. keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151989547 2017-02-06 22:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151989547 Sodbuster-a farmer or farm worker who plows the land keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151989826 2017-02-06 22:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151989826 Homesteaders- a settler under the Homestead Act. keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151990223 2017-02-06 22:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151990223 Disenfranchised-to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity; especially :  to deprive of the right to vote keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151990604 2017-02-06 22:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151990604 Grange-an association of farmers that strongly influenced state legislatures in the late 19th century keonnam03 https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151991153 2017-02-06 22:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/keonnam03/d6boexo846bx/wish/151991153