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27 Cards in this Set
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An African American who spent his life trying to improve conditions for the blacks in the South |
Booker T. Washington |
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What town was Booker T Washington asked to teach |
Tuskegee in Alabama |
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What did Booker T Washington teach his students |
to work hard, plant gardens, to make bricks |
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What is the name of the school where Booker T Washington taught |
Tuskegee Institute |
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scientist whose work with plants helped Southern farmers, taught at Tuskegee Institute for many years |
George Washington Carver |
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men whom ranchers hired to take care of their cattle |
American cowboys |
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inventor of the first successful mechanical reaper |
Cyrus McCormick |
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two railroad companies that built the transcontinental railroad |
Union Pacific Company and Central Pacific Company |
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law that promised 160 acres of free land to settlers in the West who would cultivate the land for five years |
Homestead Act |
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time in 1889 when the goverentment opened Oklahoma for settlement |
Oklahoma Land Rush |
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place where the two railroads met |
Promontory Point Utah |
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Homestead Act passed |
1862 |
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trancontiental railroad is complete |
1869 |
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Oklahoma Land Rush |
1889 |
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What animal was important in an Indians life |
buffalo |
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after the Civil War, pioneers began to build settlements where? |
Great Plains |
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pieces of land that the U.S. has set aside for the Indians |
reservations |
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railroad that would cross the continent from coast to coast |
transcontinental |
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what change did the railroad bring to our country |
1. It helped settle the West 2. the east was brought closer to the West |
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a special mark burned onto the cow's or calf's hide |
brand |
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Where was beef scarce? Where was it plentiful? |
Scarce-East Plentiful-West |
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town where ranchers moved their herds |
cow towns |
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when cattle would wildly run |
stampede |
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what did cowboys do to prevent stampedes |
sage soft songs |
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Oklahoma belonged to the Indians but what did the goverent do to them |
goverenment moved them of the land |
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When was it announced that there would be no more land left in the U.S. |
1890 |
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