8Th Grade Ss Chapter 18 Review Terms Miller

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A name given to the Plains farmer

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sodbuster

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A rail line which would span the continent and connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

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transcontintal raiload

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In 1862 Congress passed an Act which gave 160 free acres of land to a settler who paid a filing fee and ived on the land for five years

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Homestead Act

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To plant seeds deep in he groud where there was some moisture

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dry farming

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The herding of cattle 1,000 miles or more to meet the railroads

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long drive

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The first farmers organization of this period was a network of local self-help organizations

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National Grange

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In February 1890, Alliance members formed the People's Party of the U.S.A., also known as the...

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Populist Party

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One of the two companies that accepted the challange and began laying tracks westward from Omaha, Nebreska

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Union Pacific Company

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One of the two companies that accepted the challange and began laying tracks eastward from Sacramento, California

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Central Pacific Company

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Former mining towns that became deserted.

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ghost towns

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People that looked for gold in the Colorado Rockies...what were there slogan

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prospectors
"Pikes Peak or Bust"

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A mass or strip of ore sandwiced between layers of rock

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lode

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A mineral mined for the valuable substance it contains, such as silver

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ore

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A community experiencing a sudden growth in buisness or population

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boomtown

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Financial aid and land grants from goverment.

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subsidies

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Moving from place to place with no permanent home

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nomadic

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A symbol burned into an animal's hide to show ownership

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brand

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Land not fenced or divided into lots

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open range

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An area of public lands set aside for Native Americans

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reservations

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One of the longest long drive named for ranchers Charlie Goodnight and Oliver Loving, swung west through the New Mexico territory and then turned Norh

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Goodnight Loving Trail

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One of the longest long drives led from centralTexas to Abilene, Kansas

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Chisholm Trail

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Spanish ranch owner or hispanic ranch had

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vaquero

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in 1858 a mining expedition found gold on the slopes of ___________________ in the Colorado Rockies

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Pikes Peak

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When the Spanish and Mexico and Texas, they brought a tough breed of cattle with them. Called __________ because of their prominent horns these cattle gradually spread across Texas

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longhorns

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On April 22, 1889 was the opening day when all the people could move out to Oklahoma to claim there land. When the people came to claim there land there were already people on it who came early. What were those people called?

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sooners

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The __________________ were networks of organizations that sprang up in the West and the South in the 1880s

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Farmer Alliance also called Southern Alliance

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The unliited production of silver coins

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free silver

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The Democratic Candidate, that won the election in 1892.

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Grover Cleavland

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in 1896 the Democrats chose a candidate for president who supported free silver and other populist goals. He was the 36 year old ____________ known as the Great Commoner because of his appeal to average Americans. He believed in the farmers causes

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William Jennings Bryan

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Towns located near railroads to market and ship cattle

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cow towns

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On the transcontinental railroad the Union Pacific worked on one side of the country while the Central Pacific worked on the other. They both met at _____________ which is in Utah territory

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Promontory Point

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People who take the law into their own hands

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vigilantes

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Govornor of California who drove a final golden spike into a tie to join the two railroads togther

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Leland Stanford

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In 1883 the railroad companies divided the country into four _________

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time zones

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Stores where farmers bought products from each other

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cooperatives

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A law passed by Congress in 1887 saying that the Native Americans had to follow the American lifestyle and move onto the reservations

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Dawes Act

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In 1867 the federal government appointed the __________ to develop a policy toward the native Americans. They came up to move them to reservations

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Indian Peace Commission

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Wovoka, prophet, claimed that the Sioux could regain their former greatness if they performed a ritual known as ____________________

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Ghost Dace

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Cowhands wore ????

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chaps, and lariats

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What kind of new fencing did they use

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barbed wire