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History
9th Grade
11/03/2009

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Great Plains
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Grasslands in west-central portion of the US
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
Definition
US closes trail: Sioux to reservation
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Battle of Little Big Horn
Definition
Custers last stand
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Assimilation
Definition
Natives to give up their way of life and join white culture
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Dawes Act
Definition
Americanize natives, break up reservation
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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7th cavalry kill 300 unarmed Native Americans. Ends Indian wars
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Longhorn
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Sturdy, short-tempured breeds brought by spanish; able to survive on poor food sources and with minimal water
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Chisholm Trail
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Drive cattle overland ranches in Texas to Kansas railhead
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Homestead Act
Definition
Women do the mens work
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Morril Act
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Financial agricultural colleges
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Bonanza Farms
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Large farms, mostly for growing and harvesting wheat
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Grange
Definition
Agricultural organization
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Farmers' Alliance
Definition
An organized agrian economic movement amongst US farmers that florished in the 1800's
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Populism
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A political discources that juxtaposes "the people" with "the elites"
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Bimetallism
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Monetary standard in which the monetary unit is defined as equivalent either to a certain queanity of gold or to a certain quantity of silver
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Gold Standard
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Monetary System in which a region's common medium of exchance are paper notes that are normally freely convertible in pre-set, fixed quantities of gold
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William Jennings Bryan
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The Democratic Party Nominee for president of the US in 1896
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Bessemer Process
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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron
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Thomas Edison
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An American editor and inventor. Created the lightbulb
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Alexander Graham Bell
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A scientist and inventor. Created the telephone
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