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| Law's that restricted Freedmen's rights. |
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| To charge a public official with wrongdoing in office. |
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| Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1868, to guarantee citizens equal protection under the law. |
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| Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870, that guaranteed voting rights to all male citizens. |
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| Leader of Nez Perce; forced to give up his home by US army, fled toward Canada; captured in 1877 |
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| An African American who migrated to the West after the Civil War. |
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| Follower of the People's Party/Populist Party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms. |
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| Settlers who ran in land races to claim land upon the 1889 opening of Indian Territory for settlement. |
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| Leader of the Sioux in clashes with the US army in Black Hills in 1870's. |
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| Person who buys up large areas of land in the hope of selling them for later for a profit. |
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| Est. in 1867, this organization helped farmers form cooperatives and pressured state legislators to regulate businesses on which farmers depended. |
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| Historian who wrote an essay in 1893 emphasizing the western frontier as a powerful force in the formation of the American character. |
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| Advocate of silver standard and proponent of the Democratic and Populist views from the 1890s through the 1910s; Democratic candidate for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908. |
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| General who directed army attacks against Native Americans in the 1870s; commanded army forces killed in 1876 at Little Bighorn in Montana. |
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| A person who gives donations to worthy causes. |
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| Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture. |
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| Muder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial. |
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| The ability to read and write. |
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| Printed material advertising a wide range of goods that can be purchased by mail. |
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| Sensational news coverage, emphasizing crime and scandal. |
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| A special fee that must be paid before a person can vote. |
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| Passage in a law that exempts a group of people from obeying the law if they had met certain conditions before the law was passed. |
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| Rural Free Delivery (RFD) |
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| Beginning in 1896, free delivery offered by the US Post Office to farm families in rural areas. |
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| Large retail establishment that carries a wide variety of goods and sells in large quantities. |
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| Statutes, beginning in the 1890s, that required segregation of public services by race. |
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| A type of music featuring melodies with shifting accents over a steady, marching-band beat that originated among black musicians in the South and Midwest in the 1880s. |
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| A type of variety show that 1st appeared in the 1870s often consisting of comic sketches, song-and-dance routines, and magic acts. |
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