Manifest Destiny - Settlers believed it was their god given right to expand out West., Homestead Act - Law that offered 160 acres of public land in the west to encourage settlement., Dawes Act - Law that forced Native Americans to assimilate and move to reservations., Transcontinental Railroad - The railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the US., Americanization of Native Americans - Assimilation into American culture. example: becoming Christian, going to white schools, looking like settlers., Gold Rush - A period from 1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search for gold., Klondike Gold Rush - Miners move to Alaska in 1896 after gold was discovered there., Reservations - Areas of federal land set aside in sparsely populated areas of the West, for Native Americans to live. (A result of the Dawes Act), Interstate Commerce Act - Law that prohibited railroads from overcharging farmers., Barbed wire - Used to fence in land on the Great Plains, eventually leading to the end of the open frontier., Populist Party - A third party representing the common man (farmers, miners, and industrial workers), Populist Party Platform - Unlimited coinage of silver, direct election of senators, gradual income tax, Third Parties - They provide an outlet for minorities to voice grievances and generate new ideas., William Jennings Bryan - Populists supported him for President due to his "Cross of Gold" speech in which he stated his support of unlimited coinage of silver.,

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