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| Dry farming | techniques used to raise crops in areas that receive little rain |
| Exodusters | one of a group of African Americans who migrated to the west following the Civil War |
| Sooner | person who marked his or her claims in Indian territory before it was legally open to settlement |
| Bonanza farms | farm controlled by a large business and managed by proffesionals |
| Long drive | moving of cattle from distant ranges to busy railroad centers that shipped them to the market |
| Populists | supporter of the populist party, formed in 1892 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
| Frontier Theory | US always expands west when conflict occurs, pretty soon no more land |
| Progressive income tax | tax in which the percentage of taxes owed increases with income |
| Interstate Commerce Act | 1887 response to many companies complaints against railroad compaines, regulating prices that RR charged to move freight with in states. |
| Sitting Bull- | Well known Sioux Chief |
| John Chivington | - Cheyenne massacre of men, women, and children. |
| Chief Joseph. | - Nez Perce Chief who was forced out of his homeland |
| Joseph Glidden- | Invented barbed wire fencing. |
| William Jennings Bryan- | Wanted to bring silver coins back into the U. S. currency system |
| Fredrick Jackson Turner | Gave a speech claiming that the frontier played central role in forming the American Charter |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | Wrote "A Century of Dishonor" led to Indian Rights movement |
| Morrill Land Grant Act | Created for state college support, fed. gove gave state gov.'s lots of land |
| Homestead Act | gave land directly to settlers 160 acres to anyone who met 5 requirements. |
| Dawes Act | An Indian reform law in 1887 gave separate land plots to each Native American family headed by a male. |
| Bland Allison Act | 1878 required the federal government to purchase and coin more silver, raising money supply- inflation |
