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Chapter 18
The West in the Gilded Age
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11th Grade
02/05/2007

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What 4 states allowed women to vote?
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Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho
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Hampton Institute
Definition
created in 1868 to school newly freed slaves, allowed 1st Indian students in 1878
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Carlisle Indian School
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Founded in PE in 1879
-outing system: Indian students lived with whites during the summer
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Comstock Lode
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-in Nevada, richest vein of silver ore on the continent
-people made money off of it by selling and buying stocks
-polgot (many races) population
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Virginia City
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-in the Comstock Lode
-more cosmopolitan than NYC or Boston
-polygot
-Irish= largest ethnic group
-nickname= Queen of the Comstock
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Oligopoly
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Several large corporations dominate an industry by dividing the market so each business has a share in it
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Homestead Act of 1862
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Promised 160 acres free to any citizen or prospective citizen who settled on the land for 5 years.
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Who got the best land in the West?
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Railroads
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Joseph Glidden
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-An Illinois sheriff
-invented and patented barbed wire
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John "Bet a Million" Gates
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got rich off barbed wire by setting up a demonstration in 1879
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Deadwood Dick
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-a black cowboy portrayed as a whiteman in dime novels
-real name= Nat Love
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Exodusters
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-moved from MI and LA to take up land in Kansas
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In Califronia what percentage of the population owned 50% of the available agricultural land by 1870?
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1%
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By 1900, what percentage of the population lived in cities?
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44%
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Henry Miller and Charles Lux
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-pioneered the West's mix of agriculture and industrialism
-shared the main characteristics of other modern enterprises: corporate consolidation, vertical integration, and schemes to minimize labor costs and stablize the work force
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Nicodemus, Kansas
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an all black community founded by 30 black Kentuckians in 1877
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Nicodemus, Kansas
Definition
an all black community founded by 30 black Kentuckians in 1877
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What did the Indian call Black soldiers in the Indian wars and why?
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Buffalo soldiers, because their hair resembled that of a buffalo
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Paralta Family
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owned Oakland, CA
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the Mormons
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-built Salt Lake City with a complex system of irrigation
-used cooperation and communalism
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Utah
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-became a state in 1896
-had to renounce polygamy and gave women the right to vote
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Charles Crocker
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-hired Chinese gangs to work the Central Pacific Railroad
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Workingmen's Party
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-formed in 1876 to fight Chinese exclusion
-leader = Denis Kearney
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Colonel John Chivington
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-slaughtered Cheyenne at Sand Creek in 1864
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Dawes Act
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-1887
-abolished reservations and alloted lands to individual indians as private property
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Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
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-to undo the Dawes Act
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Owen Wister
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-wrote "The Virginian"- western novel- gets put into movies, then into a TV series- about the cattle industry
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Annie Oakley
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Wild West Show
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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-"Century of Dishonor"- negative view of US breaking treaties
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Medicine Wheel
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-wheel, irregular shaped momument
-28 spokes, 245 circumfrence
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Devils Tower
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-1st national monument
-formed from a lava plug
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