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31 Cards in this Set
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Major Stephen H. Long |
man assigned to the exploration of the region beyond the Mississippi River in 1820 |
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Nomadic People |
the Sioux, the Comanche, and the Blackfeet Indians that roamed vast distances, following their main sources of food |
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Buffalo |
the main source of food for the Sioux, the Comanche, and the Blackfeet |
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Central Pacific Railroad |
company that built raiload lines east of Sacramento for the Transcontinental railroad Union Pacific- company that built railroad lines west of Omaha for the Transcontinental Railroad |
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Union Pacific |
company that built railroad lines west of Omaha for the Transcontinental Railroad
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Right-of-way |
land railroad workers were granted giving them the right to move Indians on that land |
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Promontory Point, Utah |
the point were the two rails connected completing the Transcontinental Railroad. The place is where the "Wedding of the rails" took place. |
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George Custer |
a general who died along with all his troops trying to get revenge for the Native Americans attacking miners. |
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Wounded Knee |
site where the final battle between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army and where 190 Native Americans were killed |
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Grenville Dodge |
a Union Army officer who helped direct the building of the Transcontinental Railroad |
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George Crocker |
the founder of the Central Pacific Railroad company |
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Chief Joseph |
led the march of Naz Perce and then later surrendered |
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Vasqueros |
are cowboys that made the cattle industry what it is today |
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Dawes Act |
Act that broke up the Native American nations, even on the reservations |
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Mavericks |
unbranded cattle |
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Cattle Drives/Long Drives |
when cowhands drove herds of steers to railroad shipping centers in Missouri and Kansas |
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Chisholm Trail |
trail from San Antonio to Abilene, a station on the Kansas Pacific Railroad |
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Forty-niners |
miners who went to California in 1984 for gold |
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Fifty-niners |
miners trying to get a fortune in Pikes Peak country in 1859 |
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Henry Comstock |
a miner that the Comstock Lode was named after; he was one of the first to go to Comstock Lode |
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Lode |
rush for valuable minerals |
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Claims |
to ask as one's right or property; gives the owner the right to mine that land on the claim |
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Vigilance Committee's |
committee of self-appointed volunteersthat provided law and order in mining towns |
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Vaudeville |
the live variety show in the West |
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Homestead Act |
act enabling a head of the family to acquire a 160-acre farm for $10 |
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Exodusters |
a name given to African Americans who traveled West |
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Joseph Glidden |
the creator of the barbed wire |
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Meridian |
line of longitude |
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Commodity |
economic goods that paid for European investments |
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Charles Russell |
was born in St. Louis and set out to Montana to work when he was 16 to watch Native American life and as a cowhand. He was known as "The Cowboy Artist" |
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Helen Hunt Jackson |
a woman who wrote "A Century of Dishonor" a book that criticized the government policy toward Native Americans |
