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30 Cards in this Set
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1. What were the terms of the Homestead Act?
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1.a. Work the land for 5 years
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2. Why did the plains farmers support bimetallism?
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2. a. Put more money into circulation
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3. Assimilation of the plains Indians was intended to do what ?
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3. a. Help them adapt to white culture
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4. What brought an end to the open range?
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4. a. Barbed wire
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5. What reasons forced the second removal of the plains Indians?
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5. a. Whites wanted the western lands
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6. What was the greatest danger to cowboys on cattle drives?
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6. a. stampedes
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7. What was the purpose of the ghost dance movement?
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7. a. Regain their former way of life
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8. Which event marked the end of the Indian Wars?
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8. a. Wounded Knee
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9. What can be concluded from where Native Americans lived in the late 1800's?
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9. a. Forced to give up most of their western lands
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10. What main ideas did the Populist Party support?
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10. a. Tight controls on inflation, lower interest rates on loans, goverment control of railroads
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11. The first cowboys learned their skills from whom?
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11. a. Mexican ranchers
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12. What did Morrill Land Grant Act do ?
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12. a. Gave federal land for agricultural universities
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13. Sand Creek and Wounded Knee were famous for what ?
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13. a. US government massacres of Indians
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14. What things/ideas were central to the way of life of the Plains Indians ?
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14. a. Horse, buffalo, and extended family
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15. Who were the Exodusters ?
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15. a. Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains
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16. What was the purpose of the US government's Native American boarding schools?
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16. a. To impose the dominant American culture on them
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17. What happened to the price of wheat as the 1800's closed out?
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17. a. dropped
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18. What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
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18. a. Change Native Americans way of life/independent farming
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19. What ideas/items contributed to the advancement of farming on the plains?
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19. a. Steel plow, Homestead Act and railroads
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20. How did the US government try to speed up the removal of the Plains Indians?
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20. a. Destruction of the buffalo
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21. Why were plains farmers pushing for the regulation of the railroad in the late 1900's?
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21. a. Overcharging for services
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22. Why did many people walk away from the free land offered by the Homestead Act?
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22. a.The land was very difficult to farm
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23. How did the US government's reservation policy contribute to the poor health and high death of Native Americans?
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23. a. Reservation lands were largely unproductive
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24. What event in 1848 contributed to the conflicts between white settlers and Native Americans?
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24. a. Discovery of gold
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25)What all contributed to the huge debts faced by plains farmers in the late 1800's?
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25. Inflation, falling prices, and tight money supply
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26)What marked the collapse of Populism?
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26)Election of William McKinley
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27)Who led a small band of Apache Indians and was impossible to capture until he surrendered?
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27) Geronimo
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28) How did the white people destroy the buffalo?
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28)Railroad survey operations disrupted grazing areas, killed by white sport hunters, killed because they obstructed the railroad
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29) Identify and explain the hardships that farmers faced on the plains.
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29) Land: great American Desert, dry climate, less fertile
Expensive: railorad, high interest loans Weather:tornadoes, hail,drought, blizzards, fires |
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30)Identify and explain the reasons for Western migrations.
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30)Dream of riches:gold, silver, cattle, farming
Transcontintneal RR: made it safer and easier to travel Urbanization of eastern cities:overpopulated and dirty Homestead Act: 160 acres of free land |
