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| The boundary to begin the West |
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| Government gave 160 acres in the West for anyone who lived on it for 5 years. |
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| Highly developed cultural Indians |
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| Freed slaves who moved West for free land and joined the army and fought the Indians as a way to earn money |
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| Indians were the true communists and believed everyone shared everything |
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| Began the Reservation system |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| Railroad that crosses a continental land mass |
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| US army leader, Chivington, massacred the Cheyenne at and Creek Reserve. 400 were killed. Mostly women and children. |
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| General George Custer and all of his men were killed by the Natives at the Battle of Little Big Horn |
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| Famous Apache chief whose family was murdered by Mexicans. He continuously caused problems |
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| Wrote _A Century of Dishonor_ in 1881 about 100s of broken US/Native treaties |
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| Process where Natives would become like whites |
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| US frontiersmen and scout |
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| Was a example of a cow town |
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| Broke up reservations and divided land among the Natives and additional land was to be sold and the money given to Natives for farming equipment |
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| A dance Natives believed would save them from the white man |
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| The army massacred over 200 Natives so as to prove that their "ghost dance" couldn't save them |
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| Big meatpacking businesses in Chicago |
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| Small town where cattle are shipped. Where cow trails and railroads met |
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| Undeveloped region that is open to settlement |
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| People who took progression of the free land in Oklahoma before it officially opened |
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| Sod houses settlers built on the flatlands |
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| Name given to African Americans who migrated from states along Mississippi river to Kansas |
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| Supported agricultural education. Gave federal land to states to help finance agricultural colleges. |
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| Est. agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new research. |
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| Men from mid western states that acted of their own accord |
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| Cattle herders in the west who learned from Mexican cowboys |
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| wire with metal sharp prongs along it used to keep cattle and indians out |
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| the nickname for a train in the West |
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| invented steel plow, now iconic name for farming equipment |
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| Invented mechanical reaper |
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| Citizens use only gold to back paper money |
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| Coops were made for farmers to help with others workload to return for profit in the harvst |
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| Formed by farmers who wanted to reform |
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| citizens use gold and silver as money exchange |
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| William Jennings Bryan.." You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns etc.." |
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| artist who depicted american landscape and buffalos |
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| was a painter who was well known for depicting the West |
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| a slang word used to describe new paper money that was green in color |
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| Farmers association that branded together to discuss reforms |
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| "Great Commoner" he was an avid populist democrat, ran for president 3 times |
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| Ran against William Jennings and won president |
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