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american west terms
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Undergraduate 2
09/25/2009

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Boom Towns
Definition
company towns, company owned everything in the town
• Help the spread of prostitution in the west
• Get paid in company script that u can spend in the boom towns
• When companies left the boom towns they became ghost towns
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Homestead act of 1862
Definition
o Federal government gave 160 acres of land to anyone and all you had to agree to was settle (build house, crops, carpeting shop ect.) it for up to 5 years
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Definition
prohibits further Chinese immigration after 1882, and prevents the Chinese that are already here from ever becoming naturalized citizens.
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Things needed to survive in the west (Farming):
Definition
• Barbed wire
• Steel plow
• Independent spirit
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Federal Governments Policy Towards Native Americans-
Definition
• Seperation- they wanna believe in what they wanna believe in and we wanna believe in wut we wanna believe in so lets just move them. 1820-1870s is how long we work on separation
• Assimilation-adapted, absorbed the culture.
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o Native Americans expected to adopt:
Definition
 Christianity
 English language
 Fixed societies
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Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
Definition
 Broke native american lands up into 160 acre parsals of land, each head of household would receive 160 parsal of land
 Goal- teach native Americans fixed farming and the concept of private land ownership.
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The battle of Little Big Horn
Definition
• Custer’s Last Stand- between Custer and the U.S. army and the Sioux Indians
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Wounded Knee
Definition
December of 1890
• 146 Sioux men, women, and children are killed at Battle of Wounded Knee
o Killed bc they were practicing the ghost dance
• Last Major Battle of the Indian Wars
• 1895- most native Americans were assimilated or living on reservations
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Frederick Jackson Turner
Definition
in 1893 wrote the Frontier Thesis
• Declare that the American Frontier is Closed
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“New Immigrants”-
Definition
• Immigrants immigrating after the civil war
• Came from southern and eastern Europe-don’t speak English
• Make your way to the city bc it’s the best place to find a job
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