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| Oliver Hudson Kelley | started an orgaanization for farmers that became known as the Grange |
| Chisholm Trail | allowed the cattle business to flourish by providing a route to a shipping yard in Abilene, Kansas |
| Populism | a late 19th century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers |
| exodusters | African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the Post-Reconstruction years |
| gold standard | a monetary system in which the basic unit of currency is defined in terms of a set amount of gold |
| Homestead Act | U.S. law enacted in 1862 that provided 160 acres of land in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years |
| Dawes Act | law that allowed white settlers to take much of the land set aside for Native Americans |
| bimetallism | the use of both gold and silver as a basis for a national monetary system, this was hoped to put more money in the pockets of ordinary people |
| William McKinley | Republican canidate for president from Ohio who was committed to the gold standard, with his election Populism collapsed |
| Morrill Act | laws enacted in 1862 and 1890 to help create agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Americans that marked the end of the Indian Wars in1890 |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux leader who was one of the Native Americans who attacked Custer and his troops; he also refused to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie which put Sioux Indians on a reservationalong the Missouri River |
