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20 Cards in this Set
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Great American desert
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vast arid territory including the great plains,rocky mountains,western plateau.
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mining frontier
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discovery of gold in Ca,caused steady flow of settlers in west
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comstock lode
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its discovery brought $340 million in gold and silver,caused nevada enter union
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chinese exclusion act
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prohibit further immigration to U.S by chinese laborers.
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cowboys;vaqueros
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mexican cowboys-traditions of cattle business & Tx longhorn borrowed from Mex.
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barbed wire
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by joseph glidden to help farmers fence in their lands on lumber-scarce plains.
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farming frontier
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homestead act encouraged farming on great plains.
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Great Plains
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farming encouraged by homestead act by offering 160 acres to pple farming for 5 years.
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oklahoma territory
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opened for settlement in 1889 and settled by hundreds.
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frederick jackson turner;frontier thesis
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historian;essay saying that after closing of frontier would cause am.to turn like aristotic england
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indian wars
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wars between indians and american settlers
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sitting bull/crazy horse
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led red river war
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Dawes Severalty act 1887
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designed to break up tribal organizations.into 160 acres & citizenship offered to those statyed on land for 25 years
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george cluster;little big horn
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place where cluster was ambushed
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chief joseph
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lead band of the Nez Perce into canada in defeat and surrender in 1877
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helen hunt jackson,A century of dishonor
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injustices done to native americans written in book.
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assimilations
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emphasized formal edu.and training and conversion to Christ.
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ghost dance movement
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last effort of Native am's to resist U.S domination thru religious mvmnt.sioux medicine man Sitting Bull was killed
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wounded knee
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>200 nat.am's gunned down in masscre of wounded knee in the Dakotas.marked end of indian wars on prairie
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Indian Recongnition Act 1934
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promoted reestablishment of tribal organization and culture,as part of pres.frank roos New Deal in 1930s
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