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9 Cards in this Set
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Great Plains
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The vast grassland that expands through the central portion North America, from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.
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Assimilation
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A minority group's adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture.
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Dawes Act
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A law, enacted in 1877 that was intended to "Americanize" Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners.
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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The treaty requiring the Sioux to live on a reservation along the Missouri River.
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Homestead Act
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A U.S. law enacted in 1862 which provided 160 acres West to any citizen and or intended citizen who was ever head of the household and would then cultivate the land for 5 years, a law led to record passages by claiming private property which had previously been reserved by treaty and by tradition for the Native Americans nomadic dwelling just the same law in 1889 which encouraged individuals to exercise their private property rights and develop homesteads out of the vast government lands.
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Exoduster
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An African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years.
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Soddy
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A home built of blocks of turf.
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Morrill Acts
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Laws enacted in 1862 and 1890 to help create agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states.
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Grange
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The Patrons of Husbandry, a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th century.
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