The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (1865-1896)
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Sitting Bull
George A. Custer
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
Helen Hunt Jackson
John Wesley Powell
Oliver H. Kelley
William Hope Harvey
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Frederick Jackson Turner
James B. Weaver
Jacob Coxey
Eugene Debs
William McKinley
Marcus Alonso Hanna
William Jennings Bryan
Sioux Wars
Nez Perce
Apache
Ghost Dance
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dawes Severalty Act
Little Big Horn
Buffalo Soldiers
Comstock Lode
Long Drive
Homestead Act
Sooner State
Safety-valve theory
Bonanza Farms
National Grange
Farmers’ Allaince
Colored Farmers’ National Alliance
Populist (People’s) Party
Coin’s Financial school
Coxey’s Army
Pullman Strike
Cross of Gold Speech
Gold Bugs
Dingley Tariff bill
41. Gold Standard Act
1. Why has the Plains Indians’ resistance to white encroachment played such a large part in the
popular American view of the West? How is that mythical past related to the Indians’ actual
history?
2. What was the “romantic” about the final phases of frontier settlement, and what was not?
3. Why was the “passing of the frontier” in 1890 a disturbing development for many Americans?
Was the frontier more important as a particular place or an idea?
4. Was the federal government biased against farmers and workers in the late nineteenth century?
Why or why not?
5. Was McKinley’s election really a “conservative” one, or was it Bryan and the Populists who
represented the agrarian past resisting a progressive urban American future?