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| Wrote A Century of Dishonor |
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| Chief of Nez Perce Indians |
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| Percentage of reservation the Nez Perce Indians lost |
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| "Hear my, my chiefs, I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." |
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| Chief Joseph's words upon his surrender |
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| Nickname for the Apache Indians |
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| Last Native American tribe to 'give up' |
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1. Railroad
2. Telegraph
3. Firewater
4. Buffalo
5. Diseases |
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| 5 factors that led to demise of Natives out West |
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| How many buffalo were left by 1887? |
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| Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
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| Battle fought over the "Ghost Dance" |
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| Year of the Battle of Wounded Knee |
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| A sacred ritual that made the Indians think a white man's bullets would bounce off of them |
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| Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
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| Act which tried to 'civilize' Plains Indians |
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| Date of Dawes Severity Act |
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1. Every Indian would get 160 acres of land
2. If Indians "behaved" for 25 years, they kept land and gained citizenship |
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| Terms of the Dawes Severity Act 1887 |
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| Year all Indians became citizens |
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| Indian Reorganization Act or Howard- Wheeler Act |
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| Act that replaced Dawes Severity Act 1887 |
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| "Bullets, bottles, and bacteria" |
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| What killed out the Indians? |
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| Towns created when people flocked to gold fields |
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| Towns that were left after all gold had been mined |
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| Name for the mass group of people which sought gold in 1859 |
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| "Comstock Lode" in Nevada |
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| Mother lode of all gold deposits |
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| Year in which gold was discovered |
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| Location of gold discovery |
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1. Dodge City, Kansas
2. Abilene, Kansas
3. Cheyenne, Wyoming
4. Ogallala, Nebraska |
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| Named after a breed of cattle found out West |
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| Name for trip where cowboys would round-up cattle and take to cow towns |
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| Gustavus Swift and Philip Armour |
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| Who were the beef barons in the East? |
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| Men who worked among the cattle and took them on "long drives" to the "cow towns" |
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1. James "Wild Bill" Hickok
2. Wyatt Earp
3. "Bat" Masterson |
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| Three famous cow town sheriffs |
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| Railroads and barbed wire |
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| What killed the long drive? |
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| Year of the Homestead Act |
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| Each settle gets 160 acres of land for a small fee and must improve it within the next five years in order to keep it |
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| Terms of Homestead Act 1862 |
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| Great American Desert Myth |
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| Belief that the prairie was made up of deserts and barren land befcause nothing grew |
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| Agricultural technique using frequent, shallow cultivation and irrigation |
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| New invention that helped do away with the long drive |
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| Theory that the frontier had always served as a a safety-valve for our society |
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| Year the "Sooners" flocked to Oklahoma |
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| Year frontier line was no longer visible |
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| Author of Significance of the Frontier in American History |
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| Inventor of first mail-order catalogue |
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| Largest agricultural state in America |
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| Invention which combined the thresher and the reaper |
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| Percentage of farms owned by sharecroppers and tenant farmers |
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1. Droughts/ Freezes
2. Floods/ wind
3. Insect- locusts and boll weevils (cotton)
4. Hail/ Erosion |
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| Four "natural" farmer problems |
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1. High interest rates
2. Trusts
3. High taxes
4. Railroads |
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| Four "man-made" farmer problems |
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| National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry |
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| First farmer organization |
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| Man who founded Patrons of Husbandry |
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| Year Oliver Kelley started National Grange |
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| To relieve the boredom of farm life by having social events |
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| Objective of the National Grange |
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| Laws passed by several midwestern states to regulate bussiness and industry, especially the railroads, for the good of the public |
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| Court case which updeld the Granger laws |
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| Year of Munn V. Illinois case |
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| Case that overturned Munn V. Illinois and got rid of the Granger Laws |
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| Decade of Greenback Labor party |
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| Farmers and cheap-money people |
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| Founders of Greenback Labor party |
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| Presidential candidate for Greenback Labor party |
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1. The Grange
2. Farmers' co-ops (Ex. Southern States)
3. Farmer's alliances |
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| Three steps to farmer organization |
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| An organization by and for farmer's |
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| Another name for Populist Party |
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1. Ignatius Donnelly
2. Thomas Watson
3. Mary E. Lease
4. James B. Weaver |
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| Four major leaders of Populist party |
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| Elected to Congress (Populist party) |
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| Urged blacks and whites to work together, later was a vicious racist (Populist party) |
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| "The Kansas Phythoness" Patrick Henry in petticoats, eloquent speaker (Populist party) |
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| "Our government is of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.." |
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| "Farmers should raise less corn, and more hell." |
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| KNOW POPULIST PLATFORM!!! |
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| President known for a clammy handshake |
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| Benjamin Harrison beat Grover Cleveland... In 1892, Grove makes a comeback |
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| Speaker of the House from Maine that ran the HOR with an ironfist |
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| Highest tariff up to that time |
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| Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890 |
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| First time government regulated trusts |
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| Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890 |
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| Replaced the Bland-Allison Act and required the treasury department to buy $4.5 million of silver and to have it redeemed in paper or gold |
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1. Haymarket Riot 1886
2. Pullman Strike 1894
3. Homestead Steel strike 1892 |
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| Three most famous strikes of the 19th century |
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| Against Andrew Carnegie's company and overthrew Pinkerton Detectives, 10 people were killed and 60 were injured |
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| Details of Homestead Steel Strike 1892 |
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| Bankruptcies, bank failures, unemployment, and soup lines |
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| Panic of... 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, and 1893 |
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| Marched to DC in 1894, were arrested for walking on grass |
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| Pullman Palace Car Company strike in Chicago |
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| Leader of Pullman Strike 1894 |
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| "If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered." |
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| Quote by Grover Cleveland concerning the Pullman Strike in Chicago |
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| Popular pamphlet written by William Hope Harvey concerning silver |
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| William McKinley (Republican) runs against William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) |
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| Famous speech by William Jennings Bryan |
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| Marcus Alonzo Hanna (stole Populist platform) |
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| William McKinley's wealthy campaign manager |
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"In God we trust, with Bryan we bust."
"McKinley and the Full Dinner Pail." |
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| Two slogans for election of 1896 |
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| Only president to use a 'front porch' campaign |
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| Same as election of 1896! |
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| Act which stated paper currency provied freely with gold |
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