Major items to review from our discussion and readings of Chapter 13

(Quiz Monday)

 

  • speculators
  • Exodusters
  • Culture of Plains Indians (review board notes)
  • Sitting Bull
  • Custer ŕ Little Big Horn
  • Dawes Severalty Act 1887
  • “Long drive” and significance of barbed wire
  • Homestead Act 1862
  • Oklahoma: sooners?
  • Inflation/Deflation – which did farmers want? Why?  What happened? (review notes)
  • Effect of new farm tools (mechanization)?
  • The Grange – who founded? Purpose?
  • Populist Party platform
  • William Jennings Bryan