Vocabulary by Jabari Bowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52 Unit 1 en-us 2017-02-05 15:49:25 UTC 2025-11-19 10:35:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Populism - is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. hc - trump and people power 19th and 20th centuries jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151666935 2017-02-05 16:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151666935 Inflation - a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money hc - rates 1914 - present jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151666966  ]]> 2017-02-05 16:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151666966 Assimilation - is the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. hc - 1900s black panthers/kkk jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667028 2017-02-05 16:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667028 Homestead Act - a special act of Congress that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment to be used as farms. hc - 1862 Lincoln and settlers jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667173 2017-02-05 16:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667173 Morrill Act - act that provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in agriculture and the mechanic arts. hc - 1862 42 college grants jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667251 2017-02-05 16:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667251 Dawes Act - adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. hc - 1887 protected indian property rights in New York and Nebraska jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667525 2017-02-05 16:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667525 Grange - a farmers association organized in 1867. The Grange sponsors social activities, community service, and political lobbying. hc - 1875 grange movement jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667588 2017-02-05 16:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667588 Bimetallism - a system allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other. hc - 1900s century gold and silver as money jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667609 2017-02-05 16:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151667609 Great Plains -Grassland prairie region of North America, extending from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, in Canada, south through the west-central United States into Texas. hc - great american desert 1900s jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668298 2017-02-05 16:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668298 Exodusters - was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late 1900s hc - african american migration in 1879 jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668359 2017-02-05 16:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668359 Farmers Alliance - was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875 hc - populists of 1890 jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668383 2017-02-05 16:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668383 Gold Standard - he system by which the value of a currency was defined in terms of gold, for which the currency could be exchanged. hc - fdr and gold standard 1933 jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668446 2017-02-05 16:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668446 Transcontinental Railroad - a contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders. hc - concrete plan in 1845 asa whitney jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668940 2017-02-05 16:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151668940 Sodbusters - a farmer or farm worker who plows the land. hc - settlers learn how to become sodbusters in the great plains 1862 jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151669005 2017-02-05 16:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151669005 Homesteaders - is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture hc - homestead act 1862 jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151669027 2017-02-05 16:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151669027 disenfranchised - deprived of power; marginalized. hc - woman rights 1880 jabaribowman https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151669076 2017-02-05 16:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jabaribowman/vo8299giup52/wish/151669076