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Chapter 13
The west transformed
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History
8th Grade
06/07/2012

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Comstock Lode
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Source of gold and silver in Nevada
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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reformer who wrote A Century of Dishonor
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reservation
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land set asidefor Native Americans to live on
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miners dificulties
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high prices, hostile Native Americans, discrimination, violence
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Promontory
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town in Utah where the two parts of the transcontinental railroad were joined
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conflict with Native Americans
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Broken treaties and promises, like the fort larime treaty, forced move to very poor land reservations,battles with US army
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vaquero
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Mexican cowhand
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What is significant about the points where the Goodnight-Loving trail and the chisholm Trail ended?
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They both ended in Oklahoma, where cattle herds were processed for western market
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The battle of wounded knee signaled the
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end of the indian wars
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correct order of events that took place in some mining boomtowns
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merchants arrived, government officials replaced vigilantes, all of the ore was extracted from the mines
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the term wild west describes the idea that the west was a place with
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gun slinging cowboys, exciting adventures, and big opportunities
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Foreign immigrants to the west worked as all of the following
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cowhands, railroad workers, miners
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the cattle business in the west began when
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new railroads made it possible for rachers to ship beef to both eastern snd western markets
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what did native americans hope to gain in return for agreeing to stay in one place
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the right to be undisturbed on their land
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What made Native Americans feel restricted and unhappy
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assignment to a reservation
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what helped farmers push for higher prices and other economic reforms
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Farmer's alliance. National Grange, Populist Party
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the transcontinetal railroad
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connected the east with the west
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the homestead act encouraged people to move west becausse it
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offered free land to those willing to farm it
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A land rush in 1889 brought tens of thousands of settlers to
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oklahoma
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