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| An 1862 act that gave government owned land to farmers |
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| An 1862 act that gave government owned land to the states, with the understanding that the states would sell the land to finance colleges |
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| African Americans who left the south for Kansas in 1879 |
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| Nickname given to Great Plains farmers because of the toughness of the soil they had to break up |
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| Farming using hardy crops that need less water than others |
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| A Great Plains pioneer-reformer |
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| A decrease in the money supply and overall lowere prices |
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| A social and educational organization for farmers |
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| Democratic candidate for president in the 1888 election |
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| New national party formed by the country's farmers |
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| What are the two congressional acts in 1862 that helped settle the West? |
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| Homestead Act and Morrill Act |
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| How did sodbusters get their nickname? |
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| They were farmers that broke up the hard sod in the ground. |
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| Why could banding together help farmers? |
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| They could help each other out when they needed it. |
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| Why did the Populist Party dissolve after Bryan lost the presidential election? |
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| The Populist Party supported Bryan, and when Bryan lost, the Populist Party lost everything with it. |
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| What ended America's frontier? |
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| Pioneers claimed the land that was the frontier. |
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