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| How did horses change the native way of life? |
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| Allowed for faster travels. Encouraged hunter-gatherer way of life. Also encouraged war. |
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| Why were buffalo important to native Americans? |
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| Were used to make clothes, food, and housing. |
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| What was the key difference in beliefs that separated Whites and native Americans? |
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| Whites believed in owning land. Native Americans did not. |
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| What was the main effect of the Gold Rush in Colorado? |
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| The federal government changed its policies to get the land. However, the Indians used that land before. |
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| What happened in the Massacre at Sand Creek? |
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| The Cheyenne was returning to the Sand Creek reservation for the winter, but General Curtis of the US Army wants natives to suffer. The US army attacks. |
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| What was the significance of the Bozeman trail? |
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| Valued by natives as tribal land, but was a route to get gold. |
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| What was the Fetteman Massacre? |
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| Sioux attack US Army at the Bozeman Trail |
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| What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie? |
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| Agreement that the Sioux would get the Black Hills if they stopped attacking the whites. |
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| What does assimilation mean? |
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| The practice of giving up one culture to become part of another |
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| What did the Dawes Act do? |
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| Gave each native household 160 acres of land and broke up reservations. |
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| What were two effects of the Dawes Act? |
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| Natives lose land. Tourists and fur traders hunt buffalo. |
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| How did the Battle of Wounded Knee start? |
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| Native prophets suggested to do the Ghost Dance ritual, which scared the whites. |
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| What happened at the Battle of Wounded Knee Creek? |
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| The US Army demanded that the Natives surrender their weapons. They refuse, and a massacre starts. |
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| Name 3 things the American cowboy adopted from the Spanish vaquero. |
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| Spurs, leather overalls, jerky, broncos, and mustangs. |
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| Developing cities demanded beef. |
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| What was the Chrisholm Trail? |
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| Route from San Antonio, TX to Kansas |
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| The process of a cowboy moving his cattle to meat processing centers. |
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| What ended the Wild West era? |
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| Overgrazing, bad weather, and fenced land. |
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| Which direction did the Union Pacific go, and which direction did the Central Pacific go? |
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| Union Pacific went Westward, and Central Pacific went Eastward. |
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| Name 2 groups that constructed the railroads. |
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Definition
| Civil war veterans, Irish, Chinese, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans. |
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| What was the Homestead Act? |
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| Offered 160 acres of land to each household. |
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| African-Americans who moved from the South (post-reconstruction) to Kansas. |
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| Which state got the nickname "sooner state", and how did it get this nickname? |
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| Oklahoma; Homesteaders claimed land earlier than they were supposed to. |
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| Houses made of free-standing blocks of turf |
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| Why couldn't the homesteaders build houses normally? |
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| There was little wood on the prairie. |
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| What was the role of women in prairie life? |
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| They worked beside the men as farmers. |
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| What were the Morrill Acts? |
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| The Morrill Acts gave federal land to the states in order to make agricultural colleges. |
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| Established experiment stations to make new developments in agriculture. |
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| Large single-crops farms, sometimes up to 50,000 acres |
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| What were greenbacks, and what were their restrictions? |
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| Money issued during the Civil war. They could not be exchanged for precious metals. |
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| How much were greenbacks worth as compared to their face value? |
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| Greenbacks were worth less than their face value. |
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| What made crop prices fall? |
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Definition
| New technology, such as the reaping machine and the steel plow, made it easier to grow crops. |
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| What caused the economic struggles of farmers? How so? |
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Definition
| The technological advances combined with high mortgages for bonanza farms caused farmers to be in debt. |
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| The Grange was the first organization for farmers. |
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| What were the Farmer's Alliances? |
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| Farmers and sympathizers gathered to support each other. Functioned like the Grange. |
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| Fought railroads and taught farmers how to organize themselves. Also taught farmers how to vote for railroad regulation. |
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| The movement of the people |
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| Name some economic reforms the Populist party proposed. |
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| Higher money supply (and thus, inflation), a graduated income tax, and a federal loan program. |
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| Name some political reforms the Populist party proposed. |
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| US Senator election by popular vote, single-term presidency and vice-presidency, secret ballots, 8-hr workdays, and immigration restrictions. |
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| What was the Panic of 1893? |
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Definition
| An economic depression where people hastily traded paper money for gold. |
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| What was the most important effect of the Panic of 1893? |
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| Wages dropped, which caused 1/5 of the employed people to lose their jobs. This lowered the amount of investments made. |
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| Who were the Silverites? What did they want? |
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| Silverites were mostly farmers and laborers (democrats). They wanted Bimetalism, which would supply more money in circulation to cause inflation. |
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| Who were the Gold Bugs? What did they want? |
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| The Gold Bugs were bankers and businessmen (republicans). They wanted the Gold Standard, which would cause deflation and use solely gold as a way to back US dollars. |
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| Why did McKinley win the presidential election? |
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| He got the support of the people in cities, who feared inflation. |
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