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34 Cards in this Set
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Ghost Dance
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A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead.
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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It was the last armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the United States of America and of the Indian Wars.
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Assimilation
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A common phonological process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word.
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Court of Indian Offenses
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A court made for Indians that broke govt rule.
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Dawes Severalty Act
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It divided tribal lands into small plots for distribution among members of the tribe.
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Extermination of the Buffalo
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it says it in the name. Ever buffalo that could be killed, was killed.
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"Buffalo Bill" Cody
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Professional hunter that was trained to help kill the buffalo.
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FOREIGN MINERS TAX
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was a tax on foreign miners to keep them from excelling past natives
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CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
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kept out chinese for ten years
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COMSTOCK LODE
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The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range.
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PLACER MINING
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the mining (by panning or dredging) of alluvial (waterborne) or glacial deposits of precious metals or minerals, usually in stream beds or valleys adjacent to uplands rich in these minerals
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INSTANT CITIES
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like the name implies they just boomed up
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LAS GORRAS BLANCAS
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Las Gorras Blancas (Spanish for "The White Caps") were a group active in the American Southwest in the late 1880s and early 1890s
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RED RIVER WAR
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1874-75 US Army vs Kiowa and Comanche , US won , ended southwest warfare
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SITTING BULL
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medicine man, gathered with sioux
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CRAZY HORSE
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great war cheif , sioux war
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GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
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leader of 7th cavelry lietenut , eager for victory, sioux war
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7TH CAVALRY
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encountered 2500 sioux when they pushed ahead, every one died
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NEZ PERCE TRIBE
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oregon tribe , rebelled against government, tried to flee to canada, and beat the gov in a lot of battles but died of hunger/disease in oklahoma
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CHIEF JOSEPH
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chief of nez perce
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WOVOKA
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messiah who saw vision that told of ghost dances
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OVERLAND TRAIL
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the trail to the west which many people used to cross
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HOMESTEAD ACT OF 1862
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gave 160 acres of land to anyone who would pay a $10 registration fee and swear to live on and farm the land for 5 years.
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TIMBER CULTURE ACT OF 1873
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An adjustment of the homestead act. gave an extra 160 acres if the residents planted trees on 25% of the land in four years.
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TIMBER AND STONE ACT OF 1878
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allowed anyone in california, nevada, oregon, and washington to buy land for $2.50 an acre
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NATIONAL RECLAMATION ACT
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aka newlands act. set aside most of the money earned for irrigation in arid regions
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"HYDRAULIC" SOCIETY
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due to dams and irrigation water flooded into dry lands which cities were able to form on
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gold rush of 1849
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hundreds of thousands of people went to the western shores of cali. and oregon to pan for gold.
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WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ASSOCIATION
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is a historic American cattle organization created in 1873. ... to standardize and organize the cattle industry,
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Exodusters
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African Americans who fled the Southern United States for Kansas in 1879 and 1880. After the end of Reconstruction
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dry farming
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A type of farming practiced in semi-arid or dry grassland areas without irrigation
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NATIONAL GRANGE
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is a fraternal organization for American farmers that encourages farm families to band together for their common economic and political well-being
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bonanza
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large farms in the United States performing large-scale operations, mostly growing and harvesting wheat
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turners thesis
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is the argument that the origin of American exceptionalism has been the American frontier
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