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16 Cards in this Set
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What was Mark Twain's nickname for the Industrial Era 1870-1900?
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The Gilded Age
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Causes of the downfall of indians?
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miners looking for gold, extermination of the buffalo, railroads bringing settlers, white man's diseases, white man's treachery in violating treaties
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Name the last major indian battle
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Wounded Knee
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Name the law which confined all indians to reservations
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Dawes Allotment act - 160 acres to each Indian male for a farm
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Abilene
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cowtown
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Dodge City, Kansas
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Cowtown
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Deadwood, Dakota
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Mining town
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Cheyenne Wyoming
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cowtown
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Denver City
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mining town
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Virginia city
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mining town
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Resons for decline of range cattle business
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overgrazing of the range, bad weather, farmers with plows and barbed wire, railroads
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Hardships of farmers in great plains
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no trees, low rainfall, high railroad rates to farmers, bad weather, 160-acres
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Laissez Faire
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term for an economy allowed to operate free of govt. interference
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Reasons U.S. was favorable for industrialization
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natural resources, govt favoritism to business, cheap labor-weak immigration laws, high protective tariff, no real regulations of business, sound money policy, land grants to railroads, troops to break strikes, perversion of anti trust law to busy strikes/unions
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Real Economic spark to rapid U.S. industrialization
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RAILROADS
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First transcontinental railroad
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union Pacific-central pacific
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