1) Populists was known as the "People's party"
2) Populists stood for the farmers and the working class against the wealthy.
3) The Populist party came about in 1892.
4) Populists had a nickname as the "Popocrats".
5) Ignatius Donnelly was the leader of the Populist movement.
Miners
1) Native Americans used the Ghost Dance to preserve their own way of life.
The eagerness and craving of Americans to mine for gold/silver later slowed down and people had less interest in it.
1) There were many farmers after the civil war.
2) Indians were deeply involved with farming.
3) The Government gave native americans land with bad soil and little precipitation.
4) The Homestead Act gave Indians 160 acres of land.
5) Many indians and other people gave their land back to the government because of its condition.
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2) Native Americans used mostly bison to survive.
3) Sioux indians considered Little Bighorn as a sacred place.
4) 200 indians die because of a war fought over their sacred "Ghost Dance"
5) Whites make a law and deal of land with indians but they didn't fall through with good land.
Native Americans
Populists
Native Americans started to altar and be "Americanized" as they influenced by American ways.
Cowboys
The populist party (people's party) later faded into a "nothing" party.
Everyone had become cowboys; African-Americans, Whites, and Mexicans, all except chinese.
1) The cowboys of this time had been mostly settled throughout the Great Plains.
2) Indians were also a race that had become apart of the ranchers.
3) Cowboys came from many backgrounds.
4) Their jobs consisted of tending and protecting the wild herds of cattle .
5) Cowboys worked hard with low-pay.
The Old West
1) 59'ers (Miners) searched the rockies for wealth.
2) They also poured into Nevada due to the Comstock lode.
3) Both men and women were involed as miners.
4) California was not the only place that had gold to mine.
5) Mining interfered with indians.
Farmers
Farming had become a larger business because people were getting large amounts of land to farm on; but that soon began to wear out.