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40 Cards in this Set
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ore |
a mineral mined for the valuable substance it contains, such as silver or gold |
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Comstock Lode |
the discovery in 1858 of a rich load of gold bearing ore on the banks of the Carson River in Nevada
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Boomtown |
towns that grew up almost overnight around mining sites
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Ghost Town |
deserted towns as prospectors moved to more promising sites
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Transcontinental Railroad |
a railroad the spanned from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts
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Time zones |
an area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose or use subject to time restrictions |
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Open range |
land not fenced or divided into lots
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Great Plains |
flat grassland in central United States |
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Long Drive |
the sudden increase in longhorns' value set off the herding of cattle 1,000 miles or more to meet railroads
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Vaqueros |
hispanic ranch hand |
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Wild West |
western part of the United States that was not yet settled by Americans
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Sutter's Mill |
location where gold was discovered on the property of John Sutter near Sacramento CA |
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homestead |
to acquire a piece of US public land by living on and cultivating it |
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Homestead Act |
Act that gave 160 free acres of land to a settler who paid a filing fee and lived on the land for 5 years
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sodbuster |
the name given to a plains farmer |
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barbed wire |
wire with clusters of short sharp spikes set at intervals along the wire to create a fence or obstruction
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Boomers |
people who settled in Boomtowns
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buffalo |
main food source of Native Americans, lived along the Great Plains
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Reservation |
an area of public land set aside for Native Americans
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Sand Creek |
a location in Colorado where the US volunteer militia clashed with the Cheyenne; a hundred men women and children of the Cheyenne were killed
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Custer |
US Commander, was killed in the Battle of Little Big Horn after defeating Black Kettle along the Washita River
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Little Big Horn |
Battle where the Sioux and Custer's soldiers bought over land conflicts
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Crazy Horse |
a Sioux Chief that fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn; victorious
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Nez Perce |
Native American group who lived in present day Idaho, Oregon and Washington; their leader was Chief Joseph; main food source buffalo; defeated in the land conflicts
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Chief Joseph |
head of the Nez Perce; had to surrender in battles for land for fear of deaths of his people
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Geronimo |
Apache leader and a leader in the Apache Wars
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Dawes Act |
the Act passed by Congress in 1887 that proposed to break up reservations and have Native Americans settle down as farmers
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Wovoka |
Sioux prophet who spoke out against the Dawes Act and led the Ghost Dance
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Wounded Knee |
a creek where 300 Lakota were killed after they handed over their ammunition to US troops |
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National Grange |
an organization that offered farmers education, fellowship and support
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Farmer's Alliance |
networks of organizations that sprang up in the South and the West in the late 1880's
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Populist Party |
alliance members that formed the people's party whose goals were rooted in the appeal to the common people
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Free Silver |
the unlimited production of silver coins; the populists believed that putting more silver coins into the economy would give farmers more money to pay their debts
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Williams Jennings Bryan |
the democratic candidate who ran in the 1896 election for president; he bace known as the Great Commoner because of his appeal to the average American
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rancher |
farmer who raises animals |
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farmer |
person who raises crops |
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steel |
a hard type of metal whose production increased during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad |
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Black Kettle |
leader of the Cheyenne against Custer; defeated |
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Cheyenne |
one of the most determined Native American groups; opponents to new American policies for Native Americans
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Ghost Dance |
a ritual that was a way for the Sioux to express their culture that was being destroyed |
