| A | B |
|---|
| Populist Party | Political Party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |
| Civil Service | Government departments and their nonelected employees. |
| Assimilate | To be absorbed into main culture of society. |
| Pendelton Civil Service Act | Law that created the civil service system for federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on the spoil systems. |
| Gold Standard | Policy of designating monetary units in terms of their value in gold. |
| Land Grant | Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, and railroads. |
| Open Range | Vast areas of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed. |
| exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War. |
| reservation | Public Lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government. |
| nativism | Belief that native born white Americans were superior to newcomers. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Rail link between the eastern and western United States. |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | A law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years. |
