us history 2 exam 1 questions with complete solutions

homestead act - ANSWER-Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. Fredrick Jackson turner and the frontier thesis - ANSWER-He claimed that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." In 1890 George rice - ANSWER-small oil company forced out of business due to big business owners zitkala sa - ANSWER-red bird - was a Sioux writer, She wrote several works chronicling her youthful struggles with identity and pulls between the majority culture and her Native American heritage. sharecropping - ANSWER-a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. fourteenth amendment - ANSWER-citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. industrial workers of the world - ANSWER-members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America. knights of labor - ANSWER-Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader was Terence V. Powderly.