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41 Cards in this Set
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dry farming
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plowing the soil deeply to bring up underground moisture
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ghost towns
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empty, lifeless towns left behind by miners who moved elsewhere once the mines ran out
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grandfather clause
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phrasing in southern states' constitution saying that persons couldn't vote unless their grandfathers had voted before 1867
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homesteaders
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people who settled on land planning to farm it
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literacy test
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A test taken by voters to prove they are literate before being allowed to vote
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long drive
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the cattle drive moving cattle north from Texas to a cow town for shipment east
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new immigration
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persons who came to the U.S. from eastern and southern
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old immigration
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persons who came to the U.S. from northwestern Europe
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open range
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unfenced land for grazing cattle
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poll tax
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a tax paid at election time before a person could vote
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segregate
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to seperate one group from another
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wards
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people under the care of a guardian
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Chief Joseph
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led his Nez Perce tribe on a flight to Canada but was stopped just short of the border. Said,I will"...fight no more forever."
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Chief Geranimo
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with his surrender the war between the Apache and the U.S. troops was ended
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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wrote a nonfiction book, A Century of Dishonor, about the history of the mistreatment of Indians, and a novel, Ramona, protesting that treatment
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Chief Red Cloud
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leader of the Sioux, his warriors fought against the miners and the settlers moving through central Wyoming to the gold claims in Montana
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W.E.B. Dubois
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founder of the NAACP, worked against segregation, for equal rights of blacks and expanded education for blacks
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Chief Sitting Bull
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refused to return to his land in the Black Hills and eventually led 2500 warriors to victory in Battle of Big Horn
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Booker T. Washington
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believed blacks should gain economic security before working for equal rights
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Sarah Winnemucca
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wrote about the abuses the U.S. government leveled against her tribe, sharply criticizing this practice
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Gilded Age
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Name given to the era we are studying
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Gilded Age origins
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name came from a novel written by Mark Twain
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The Great Plains wasn't settled sooner because...
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it was called the Great American Desert
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era characterization
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political corruption, money in the hands of very few, and reform movements
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Comstock Lode
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huge deposit of silver found in Nevada
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Cattle Drives
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driven north from Texas to cowtowns; railroads there,cattle shipped East easier and cheaper
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Goodnight-Loving Trail
Chisholm Trail |
two trails cowboys drove cattle north on
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End of open range cattle raising
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thousands died due to severe winter;overgrazing;trouble between cattle owners and settlers
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Adaptations of homesteaders
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Russian wheat;windmills
dry farming methods |
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Relations between U.S. government and Indians
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Indians made to Americanize
Treaties were signed and broken Land taken away Agreements were broke |
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Chinese
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entered U.S. during California gold rush;Angel Island, California
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Indian Wars lasted?
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25 years
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two ways blacks were kept from voting
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literacy test and poll tax
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Cause of myth of Wild West
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Romanticization of west through novels television plays and movies, not realistic.
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reaction to new immigration
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some felt hostility, felt immigrants not educated enough to take part in democracy
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reaction to old immigration
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didn't like the religion of the old immigrants as they feared it
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reaction to Asian immigration
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there was opposition to their language, appearance, and customs
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Entrance of immigrants on East Coast
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Ellis Island, NY
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Entrance of immigrants on West Coast
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Angel Island, CA
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Dawes Act
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stated government divided reservation lands and gave Indian families plots to farm;end of 25 yrs, owned it. Had to not associate with own Indian group.
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Chief Crazy Horse
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refused to return to his land in the Black Hills and eventually led 2500 warriors to victory in Battle of Big Horn
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