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24 Cards in this Set
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Great American Desert
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The Arid land between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Coast
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Mining frontier
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feverish quest for gold and silver that extends to the 1890"s and settle much of the west
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Cornstock lode
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The discovery of this gold and silver deposit was the primary reason why Nevada entered the union.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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To reduce foreign competition, this act restricted further Chinese immigration for mining.
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Vaqueros
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The first cowboys. They wrangled the large herds of wild cattle in Texas.
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Barbed Wire
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This invention was used by ranchers to keep their cattle in their land and to keep other people out.
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Oklahoma Territory
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This land quickly became known as Indian territory when many Indian tribes were forced to move here.
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Sitting Bull
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He was a Sioux holy man, killed by police during an attempt to prevent him from supporting the Ghost Dance movement.
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George Custer
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He was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian Wars.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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She was the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.
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Dawes Severalty Act
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This act authorized the President to divide Indian tribal lands into allotments for individual families.
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Ghost Dance Movement
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A Native American religious movement that centered on the preaching of the prophet of peace Jack Wilson.
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Wounded Knee
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300 members of the Lakota Sioux tribe were killed in this last major armed conflict with the US.
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Indian Reorganization Act
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This restored certain rights to Native Americans, including local self-government and management of land.
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New South
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A term describing the rise of a south that would no longer be depended on slavery or the raising of cotton.
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George Washington Carver
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He worked in the Tuskegee Institute teaching former slaves farming techniques. He researched alternatives to cotton.
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Farmers' Alliance
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This organization grew out of the Grange movement, which formed social organizations among farmers.
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Colored Farmers' National Alliance
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An organization founded for farmers' self-protection from 'land sharks,' merchants, and horse thieves.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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The court upheld a law that required "separate but equal" accomodations in Louisiana.
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Jim Crow laws
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Laws requiring that public schools, places and transportation have separate accomodations for whites and blacks.
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Bishop Henry Turner
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A Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, he was a proponent of the "back to Africa" movement.
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Ida B. Wells
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She was an African American civil rights advocate and an early women's rights advocate who spoke out against lynching.
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Booker T. Washington
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He was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community.
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National Negro Business League
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An organization founded by Booker T. Washington to aid commercial and financial development of blacks.
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