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22 Cards in this Set
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Across a Continent
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transcontinental
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The Transcontinental Railroad went from Sacremento, CA to Omaha, NE.
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A large area of level/slightly rolling land
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prairie
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The prairie became a dust bowl due to drought and over farming.
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A person who received land under the Homestead Act of 1862.
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homesteader
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Some _________ tried to beat the system by building doll houses on the land.
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Public land set aside by the government
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reservation
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Some Native Americans continue to live on ____________ today.
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The handing down of information, beliefs, and customs from one generation to the next.
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tradition
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The Ghost Dance was a Plains Indian _________ performed to bring back their way of life.
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A person who searches for gold, silver, copper, or other valuable minerals.
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prospector
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Many ___________ staked their claim in Cherry Creek, Colorado panning for gold.
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A camp that grows into a town almost over night.
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boom town
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Camps turned into ___________
rapidly in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. |
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A dance performed by Lakota to bring back their way of life and destroy the white man
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Ghost Dance
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The Ghost Shirt was worn during the ____ _____ which was believed to make the dancer invisible.
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An unprovoked attack on unarmed men, women & children at Wounded Knee Creek by U.S. soldiers killing hundreds.
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Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek
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This massacre ended Indian resistance on the plains.
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A railroad built from Sacremento, CA going east toward Omaha, NE
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Central Pacific Railroad Co.
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This RR Company hired Chinese immigrants, Amer. Indians, African Amer. & Mexican Americans to build it through the Rockies.
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A railroad built from Omaha, NE going west to Sacremento, CA
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Central Pacific Railroad Co.
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Employed Irish Immigrants and Civil War Veterans to build the railroad across the Great Plains
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Dung from buffalos used as fuel and fertilizer
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buffalo chips
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Women & children were responsible for collecting these in wheelbarrows on the plains
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It was completed on May 10th 1869 at Promontory Point in Utah.
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Transcontinental Railroad
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This project helped to settle the west.
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white/black males 21> yrs. who pay $10 a yr.and must farm 160 acres and build a home in 6 mos.
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Homestead Act Terms
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Indians were not allowed to participate in the ______ ____
until 20 yrs later. |
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Gunfighter hired to kill Buffalo by the R.R. to eliminate the Indians most needed resource & remove them from the Railroads path
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull were actors in his Wild West Show in the East.
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A Paiute Indian who spoke out for the rights of her people, spoke Spanish & English and opened a school to teach Paiute traditions and white traditions.
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Sarah Winnemucca
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She traveled to Washington D.C. to plead with Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes for better treatment of her tribe
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Goodnight-Loving, Western, Chisholm, & Sedalia
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Cattle Drive Trails
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Most left from San Antonio, TX
for Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missoure |
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An organization formed in 1867 by farmers to help families on the plains get to know one another and support each other.
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The Grange
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It helped to fight Railroad costs to farmers and made smaller markets for sale of crops or cattle
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The Steel Wind Mill, Steel Plow, Steel Reaper, and Barbed Wire
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4 Metal Inventions that Tamed the Prarie
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These inventions helped farmers survive in the west
despite many hardships |
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A house made of sod, warm in winter, cool in summer.
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Soddy
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Problems with this housing was leaking, darkness, no windows, but could withstand fire
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Former slaves who traveled by steamboat or walked west to Kansas and created a settlement called Nicodemus
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Exodusters
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These freedmen had to collect & sell Buffalo bones or work on railroad to get through the first year.
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A political party organized by Mary E. Lease supporting farmers & attacking Railroad Monopolies.
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Populist Party
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The Populists gave a political voice to farmers which helped their cause
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