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32 Cards in this Set
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Comstock Lode
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huge deposit of gold and silver discovered in West Nevada by Henry Comstock in 1859
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boomtowns
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communtities that grew suddenly when a mine opened
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Cattle Kingdom
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Great Plains from Texas to Canada, where many ranchers raides cattle in the late 1800s
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cattle drive
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cowboys' dangerous, long journeys herding cattle to the market or nothern plains for grazing
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Chisholm Trail
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ran from San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas; one of most popular routs for cattle drives
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Pony Express
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1860 - system of messengers on horses carried messages west; telegraph put it quickly out of business
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trancontinental railroad
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railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West
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Treaty of Fort Laramine
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first major treaty between the U.S. government and Plains Indians
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reservations
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areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans
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Crazy Horse
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him and his group of Lakota Sioux ambushed/killed 81 cavalry troops
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Treaty of Medicine Lodge
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most southern Plains Indians agreed to live one reservations
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buffalo soldiers
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nickname for troops, including black cavalry, who forced Indians to leave their land
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General Armstrong Custer
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lieutenant colonel of U.S. army; defeated at Little Bighorn
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Sitting Bull
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leader of Lakota Sioux who protested U.S. demands for land
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Sioux forces, led by Crazy Horse, surrounded/defeated Custer and his troops
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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U.S. army shot/killed about 150 Lakota Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota; last major incident on Great Plains
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Long Walk
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300-mile march across desert to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico
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Geronimo
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Chiricahua Apache; he and small band or raiders avoided capture until 1886
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Ghost Dance
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religious movement that predicted the avoided capture until 1886
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Sarah Winnemucca
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Paiute Indian; called for reform, gave lectures on reservaion system
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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1887 - tried to lessen traditional influences on Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared
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Homestead Act
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gave gov. owned land to small farmers; adult U.S. citizen or plan to be + live on land for 5 years = 160 acres of free land
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Morrill Act
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granted more than 17 mil. acres of federal land to the states to sell to build colleges teaching agriculture/engineering
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Exodusters
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20,000-40,000 blacks that moved to Kansas making a mass exodus (departure from South)
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sodbusters
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nickname Plains farmers earned for hard work of breaking up sod
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dry farming
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new method of farming that shifted focus away from water-independent crops
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Annie Bidwell
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a founder of Chico, CA; used her influence to support women's suffrage and temperance
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National Grange
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social and educational organization for farmers
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deflation
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decrease in the money supply and overall prices
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William Jennings Bryan
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Democratic candidate that favored free coinage
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Populist Party
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new political party that called for the gov. to own railroads, telephones, and railroad systems, and free coinage of silver
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