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Her Stud. Ch. 9
Stoking the Fires
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History
4th Grade
06/21/2011

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Why did the Chinese and Irish railroad workers stop fighting each other?
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because there was a avalanche and many Irish AND Chinese people were killed!
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Where and when did the most famous blizzard in American history occur?
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East and 1888
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Who said, "The Apaches were once a great nation. They are now only a few"?
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Chief Cochise
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Who said, "Let me be a free man--free to travel, free to stop, free to work...and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
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Chief Joseph
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What was true of the relationship between the settlers and the Native Americans? (delete the incorrect answers)
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the white settlers did NOT treat the native Americans as fellow Americans
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What did the Dawes Act do? (delete the incorrect answers)
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C It banned native Americans from living in large family groups.
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What limited the Native Americans' power against the government? (delete the incorrect answers)
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A They were fewer and did not have one leader, like a president
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What developed when people moved and left a town completely empty?
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a Ghost town
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Which president told Chief Joseph to leave his home and go to a reservation?
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President Grant
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Which president told the countries of Europe that he did not want them to make any more colonies in the New World?
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President James Monroe
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The Spanish-American War was fought because of what Spanish colony?
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Cuba
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Which president was moved by strong public opinion to declare war on Spain? He was president during the "mysterious explosion"
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President McKinley
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What was the last event that occurred before America declared war on Spain? (delete the incorrect answers)
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Newspapers in America printed headlines like this: "Split in Two by Enemy's Secret Infernal Machine."
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Is this action right or wrong according to God's Word? The Chinnese did not return the insults of the Irish workers.
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right
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Is this action right or wrong according to God's Word? Sometimes the U.S. government ignored promises made to the Native Americans.
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wrong
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Is this action right or wrong according to God's Word? White translators sometimes added their own ideas to the speeches of Native Americans.
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wrong
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Is this action right or wrong according to God's Word? People gave Milton Daub money for running errands for them in the snow.
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right
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Is this action right or wrong according to God's Word? White people wanted the Native Americans to be more like the white settlers.
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wrong
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Is this action right or wrong according to God's Word? Clara Barton tried to help the starving and beaten people she saw.
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right
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Is this action right or wrong according to God's Word? Hearst and Pulitzer sometimes "spiced up" the news a little.
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wrong
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