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| a civilian who takes law enforcement without legal authority. |
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| tracks that trains took people on |
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| a large vehicle that made traveling a lot easier in the move west |
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| final spike driven by Leland Stanford to connect the transcontinental railroad |
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| name given to African Americans who moved west along the Mississippi river to Kansas. |
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| someone who moves with their food and weather some of the native American tribes lived in this lifestyle |
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main source of food for the native Americans |
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| war leader of the Lakota and rebel to the U.S army |
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| Leader of the Apache tribe |
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| election in which William Kenney won |
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| Towns that are established because of a spike in gold or silver but after the spike dies down a lot of people leave |
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| Transcontinental railroad |
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| a railroad that connects east coast with west coast |
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| American tycoon Industrialist politician and father of Stanford university also the man who put the golden spike into the transcontinental railroad |
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| a portable conical tent made of skins,used by American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions. |
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| The battle of little bighorn |
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| Battle between General Armstrong Custer and multiple Native Americans resulting in Armstrong's death |
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| This act put native Americans in reservations |
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the 22nd and 24 president
[only president to serve 2 non consecutive terms] |
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| explorer that is after mineral deposits to strike it rich |
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| 20 president serving from march 4 1881 until his assassination later that year |
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| a farmer or farm worker that plows land |
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| a person or machine that gathers crops |
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| a machine that separates grain from the plants by beating |
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| the wounded knee massacre on the native Americans killed over 200 men women and children |
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| name given to settlers in the Southern United States who attempted to enter the Unassigned Lands |
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| battle leader of the lakota |
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| American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, |
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| a sum of money granted by the government or public body |
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| a particular amount of money |
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| a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal commercial and social purposes |
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| a time period in which gold was found in California so a lot of miners and people who wanted to find gold went there |
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| American miner after whom the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada was named. |
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| the richest silver mine in American named after famous prospector Henry Comstock |
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| a very wanted mineral at the time |
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| the main weapons of Native Americans |
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| the government would give you free land as long as you went west and claimed your land and lived on it |
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| a very popular Native American dance |
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| a grain grown by farmers to sell or to make food out of such as bread |
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| horses were new to America in westward expansion they were brought over by the Spanish but some got away and started to breed here making them common in the U.S |
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| point of interest for mining minerals after the gold rush in California had ended. |
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| A vast area of land with no hills mountains or plateaus |
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| a place where people go to dig for minerals |
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| to dry farm is to put the seed deep down in the story and keep the soil from covering it and let it grow up out into the earth |
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