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| a system of agriculture in which a land owner allows a tenant to farm on the land in return for a share of the crop |
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| State and Local laws in the US that made racial segregation in all southern states normal. black people were "seperate but equal" |
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| Plessy Vs. Ferguson (1896) |
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| The supreme court validated the souths segregationalist order |
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| many people came to the west not only because of the railroad, but because of other opportunities. everywhere became populated. |
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| Frederick Jackson Turner / "Signifance of the Fronteir inthe American History" |
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| essay describing how the frontier shaped America and is responsible for the America that we have today. |
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indians crammed in the middle when the white man began to conquer the west;
sioux werent afraid to attack.
party ambushed William Fetterman's command --> No survivors; one of the few indian victories |
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| Native Americans were given an area of land to manage under the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
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| an official who represents the US or canada to a group of North American Indians. |
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| officer and cavalry commander in Civil war and indian wars; Fought in the First Battle of Bull Run; went to control some indians, got fucked. |
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| Battle of Little Big Horn |
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| Overwhelming victory for the indians. Custer was killed in this battle. |
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| Sioux Holy-man; Nez Pierce wanted to rendezvous with him to escape being on a reservation; he had taken refuge north of the border after battle of Little Big Horn |
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| Apache tribe leader; hated white people; pursued into Mexico by US |
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| Chief Joseph of Nez Pierce |
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| was trying to escape from being put into a reservation, didnt make it to the US Canadian border to meet with Sitting Bull |
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| main source of everything to the indians lol |
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| because the Sun dance was outlawed, the cult spread to the Dakotas and the army killed everyone to stop it from spreading |
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| Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 |
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| Allowed the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual indians. |
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Industries of the West:
-railroads
-mining
-agriculture
-cattle driving |
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Railroads - lead to spreading of everything
Mining - New materials and new innovations
Agriculture - more industrial, dependent on $$ and not self sufficient
Cattle Driving - lolwut? |
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gold rush took place here.
first major push into the rocky mountains
father to Boomtown, Colorado |
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| mining industry taken over by corporations |
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| corporations would no longer have a middle man but could mine for the sources themselves. |
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| lonely, primitive, more freedoms however, have to work for themselves. |
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cow towns were set up (similar to vegas)
trails
took long times. |
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| Mining Towns and Cattle Towns |
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Cattle towns acted as rest points for cattle drivers. they were rowdy and similar to those in a western with violence, saloons, and prostitution of course.
Mining towns - place where miners hung out. near gold mines, other mines, etc. |
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| gave an applicant the title to an area typically 160 acres of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River. |
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| weather on the great plains |
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thunderstorms, drought, blizzards, hailstorms, tornados.
winters cold, summers hot. |
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| Corruption of Homestead Act |
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| people would apply for freeland, and than turn around and resell it. |
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| Mechanization of Agriculture |
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| farmers were able to manage larger land areas because of the machines used. increased productivity, decreasing value, making it a hard life to live. |
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ideology based on the white poor cotton farmers of the south. and wheat farmers in the plain states.
showed hostility towards banks, railroads, and elites in general.
William Jennings Bryan
grew in response to low agricultural prices in the south.
the Populist/Republican alliance had fallen appart, which had helped govern N. Carolina. |
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| represented the merger of the agrarian concerns of the Farmer's Alliance with the Greenback party, while endorsing the urban Knights of labor. |
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Populist Presidential Candidate
liked silver standard, bashed everyone else who thought the gold standard should be in use
gave Cross of Gold Speech |
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Bryan said he supported Bimetalism / free silver. Hated Gold standard
"you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" |
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supported gold standard
25th president
lead through the panic of 1893 saying that the gold standard will fix everything |
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Political Manager of McKinley
you have to go to him if you want to be president
"president maker" |
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| Gold Vs. Silver; Bimetalism |
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Silver: money was based on silver. expanded money supply, yet would not solve the economic woes.
Gold.
more stable, would actually help. |
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