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22 Cards in this Set
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Great Plains
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The grass land exstending through the west central portion of the United states
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Treaty Of Fort Laramie
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the sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Mississippi River in 1868
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Sitting Bull
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Tatanka Iyoyanka leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux
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George A. Custer
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Reported that the Black Hills has gold "from the grass roots up"
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Assimilation
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A plan under which Native Americans would give up their benifits and way of life and become part of white culture
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Dawes Act
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aiming to "Americanize" the Native Americans
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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Brought the indian wars - and an era- to a bitter end
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Longhorns
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sturdy, short tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern os Spanish Spain
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Chisholm Trail
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The major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklanhoma to Kansas
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Long Drive
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Overland transport of animals, often 3 months
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Homestead Act
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Ofered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household
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Exodusters
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African Americans wgo moved from the post-reconstruction south to Kansas
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Soddy
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A dugout, sod house;warm in winter cool in summer
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Morril Act
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Gave Federal land to the states to help finance agriculture colleges
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Bonanza Farms
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Enormous single-crop spreads of 15,000 - 50,000
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Oliver Hudson Kelley
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started the Patrons of Husbany, an organization for farmers that became popularly known as the Grange.
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Farmers' Alliances
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included many others who sympathized with farmers.
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Populism
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movement of the people
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Bimetallism
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a monetary system in which the government would give ciytizens either gold or silver in exchange of paper currency or checks
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Gold Standard
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backing dollars soley with gold
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William McKinley
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Nominated for president for firm commited to the gold standard
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William Jennings Bryan
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editor of the Omaha World-Herald, deliverd an impassioned address to the assembled delegates
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