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| comanche, cheyenne, crow, blackfoot, arapaho, kiowa |
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| 4 characteristics of true plains indians |
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1. nomadic ---
2used beast of burden---
3depended on buffalo and wild cattle for food ---
4 used weapons adapted for hunting big game----
5 adopted the horse before they came in contact with white men |
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| dawes severalty act of 1887 |
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| dissolved many tribes as legal entities, woped out trial ownership of land, and set up individual Indian family hears with 160 free acres-----if indiand behaved like "good white settlers" then they could get full title to their holdings as well as citizenship |
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| Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 |
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| the new basis of the governments indian policy, replacing the dawes act |
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| people who rushed to te rockies to look for gold and silver, and also went to nevada when a lot of gold and silver was discovered at Comstock Lode |
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| provided a grant of the public lands to the states for support of education |
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| texas cowboys driving herds of cattle over unfenced plains intul they reached a railroad terminal o where they could be sold. -----stopped being successful when farmers put up fences |
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| allowed a settler to acquire as muhc as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years and making improvements on, and paying $30---land was now being given away to encourage a rapid filling of empty land----hoax because the land given had bad soil |
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| frequent shallow cultivation, which depleated the soil |
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1. overptoduction and falling prices
2. high prices on manufactured goods due to high tarriffs and business monopoly
3 exotbitant interest rates
4 faremrs believed that the key to their problems was the shortage of money...wanted to increase the amount of money in circulation
5 distributors took too large a share of the profits
6 railroads charged differential freight rates |
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| National Grane of the Patrons of Husbandry |
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| led by oliver Kelley, was made to enhance lives of isolated farmers through social, educational, and graternal activities.---made stores for farmers |
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| from the farmers alliance....called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph, amde an income tax-----wanted free and unliminted coinage of silver |
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| set out to washington so the government would relieve unemployment by an inflationary PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM |
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| helped form the american railway union..was arrested because he didnt cease the strike |
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| started when Pullman car company cut wages, and spread across the nation |
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| REP:William McKinley(Hanna, was to aid business)---------------DEM:William Jennings Bryan(demanded inflation through coinage of silver) |
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| proposed new high tariff taes to generate enough rebenue to cover the annual treasury deficits |
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| Gold Standard Act of 1900 |
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| provided that paper currency be redeemed freely in gold |
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| greatest military chief of indians |
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| religious revival who sought a return to the former lifestyle of the free roaming buffalo hunters.---resulted in sittin bull's death |
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| last indian uprising on the great plains |
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