FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 26

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 26

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Question 1: Eugene V. Debs

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labor leader arrested during the Pullman Strike in 1894

Question 2: Jacob S. Coxey

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marched on Washington in 1894 demanding that the govt relieve unemployment by an inflationary public works program

Question 3: Cross of Gold Speech

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a speech given by William Jennings Bryan that advocated the use of silver coins

Question 4: Granger Laws

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a series of laws passed in Western states after the Civil War to regulate grain elevator and railroad rates and rebates

Question 5: Geronimo

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leader of the Apache tribe; had an enormous hatred for whites, fought against them when they were trying to push Apaches off of their land; surrendered in Mexico

Question 6: Helen Hunt Jackson

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author who wrote A Century of Dishonor, which chronicled the government's misdeeds against Indians; her writing helped inspire sympathy for Indians

Question 7: Sooner State

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Oklahoma's nickname because many people entered it illegally before it officially became a state

Question 8: Coxey's Army

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a group of people that marched on Washington demanding jobs; were arrested

Question 9: Homestead Act

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passed in 1862; stated that a settler could acquire up to 160 acres of land and pay a minimal fee just for living on it and settling it for 5 years; land was actually ravaged by drought and hard to cultivate

Question 10: James

• Weaver

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nominated by Populists for the 1892 election; gained support primarily in the west

Question 11: George

• Custer

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set out in 1874 with the Seventh Cavalry to return Plains Indians to the Sioux reservation; defeated an Indian army that outnumbered his men 10 to 1

Question 12: safety-valve theory

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as the population of the US increased there was always a way to release the population; the west had always acted as a safety valve but by 1890 the safety valve was gone because there was no more frontier

Question 13: Chief Joseph

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leader of the Nez Percé tribe; fled with his tribe to Canada instead of the reservations; US troops came and brought them to a reservation

Question 14: National Grange

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formed in 1867 as a support system for struggling western farmers; an educational and social organization under the leadership of Oliver Kelly; lobbied state and federal governments for legislation that would protect farmers from big business

Question 15: "fourth party system"

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political era of Republican dominance beginning in 1896, when many key issues faded

Question 16: Sioux Wars

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lasted from 1876-1877; spurred by gold-greedy miners in Sioux land who were breaking a treaty; Sitting Bull vs. Custer

Question 17: Sitting Bull

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a leader of the Sioux tribe; arrested for his support of the Ghost dance and died in the Battle of Wounded Knee

Question 18: William Hope Harvey

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author of the popular pro-silver pamphlet "Coins Financial School"

Question 19: Ghost Dance

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a cult ritual that attempted to call the spirits of past warriors to inspire young people to fight; crushed at Battle of Wounded Knee; led to Dawes Severalty Act

Question 20: Dawes Severalty Act

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1887; dismantled Indian tribes as legal entities; set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres of land each; tried to make rugged individualists out of Indians and attempted to assimilate Indians into American society

Question 21: Farmers' Alliance

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sponsored social gatherings, active in politics, fought against the dominance of big businesses

Question 22: Comstock Lode

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valuable silver found here; caused many Californians and "fifty-niners" to migrate to Nevada

Question 23: Nez Percé

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Indian tribe that fled capture from US troops and almost made it to Canada before they were captured and put in a reservation

Question 24: Pullman Strike

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strike led by Eugene V. Debs; US military stepped in because strikers were interfering with US mail

Question 25: Long Drive

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process by which Texas cowboys would herd cattle over plains until they reached a railroad terminal

Question 26: Mary Elizabeth Lease

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an eloquent Kansas populist who urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell"