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Chapter 4
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History
10th Grade
09/19/2012

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Sarah winnemlucca did what?
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Called attention to the problems oAmericanism Indians
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Massacre of wounded née?
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Us army killed 300 Sioux at wounded knee creek in south Dakota  it ended the us American Indian wars in the great plains
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Who led a army of about 600 us army soldiers and attacked little big horn?
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George Armstrong custer
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What granted more then 17 million acres of federal land
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Morill act
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Large scale farm owned by large company runs like a factory
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Bonanza farm
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Open range
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Public land used by cattle ranchers
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Comstock lode
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One of the worlds richest silver mines
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Hard rock mining
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Sinking deep mine shafts to get ore out of rocks
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William H Seward
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Negotiated the purchase of Alaska
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What did American Indians discover about the reservation system and the promises made by the government
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The us government often failed to follow the treaties and promised supplies never arrived
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Why did many plains Indians refuse to live on reservations
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Government would force them too become farmers and abandon there traditional lives
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Why did the sand creek massacre occur
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Chivington orders attack
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How did the us government attempt to assimilate American Indians
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Made them go to boarding schools made them farm learn about Christianity
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From which state was land taken in 1889 from the creek and Seminole to give to non Indian homesteaders
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Oklahoma
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What were the benefits of living in a sod house
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Thick walls isulations keep heat out during summer time keeps Bugs out
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How did cowboys spend there time in two once e cattle boom ended
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Drinking and gambling
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Why did the cattle boom end
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Blizzards
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What was live like in mining camps
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Difficult little pay long hours intolerant
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How did technology change mining
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It made it more dangerous
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Why did government create Americans reservations
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So Indians could settle down and farm
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Wht was the purpose of the pacific railway act
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To get telegraph lines to build s raile line from coast to coast
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What hardships did farmers face on the great plains
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Severe weather fingers strong winds prairie fires
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What technological advances helped western farming develop
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Wind mills irrigation
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Why did people move west
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No room for farming economic depression gold rush religion freedom and privacy
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Where did the union pacific and central pacific railroads join together
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Promontory Utah
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Wovoka-
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Began the ghost dance
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Beliefs of the ghost dancers
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Dead native Indians would rise the white would disappear and ways of life would be restored
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How did the daws general allotment act create more hardship for Indians
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Caused them Indians to loose lots of acres of there original territory
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What granted acres of land to anyone who would live on the land and from on it for 5 years
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