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25 Cards in this Set
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Great Plains |
grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States |
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Treaty of Fort Laramie |
government would close the Bozeman Trail and in return the Sioux would live on reservations along the Missouri River |
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Sitting Bull |
only Sioux chief who wouldn't sign treaties with the whites, one of the leaders at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
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Battle of Little Big Horn |
battle between natives and 7th Calvary, also called Custer's Last Stand |
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George Armstrong Custer |
leader of the 7th Calvary |
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assimilation |
Natives were to give up beliefs and way of life and adopt white culture |
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Dawes Act |
divided reservations into private family plots |
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Wounded Knee |
200 Sioux were killed here after their surrender |
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Longhorns |
sturdy, short tempered breed of cattle accustomed to dry grasslands |
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Chisholm Trail |
major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Kansas |
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long drive |
moving cattle from ranges to cow towns |
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William Cody |
started Wild West shows, also called Buffalo Bill |
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Homestead Act |
Land act that allowed settlers to buy 160 acres for ten dollars, but had to meet requirements |
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exodusters |
migrated western lands to escape the violence in the South |
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soddy |
a sod home made of blocks of prairie grass, warm in the winter and cool in the summer |
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Morill Land Grant Act |
distributed millions of acres of land to states to sell and use money to establish land grant colleges |
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Bonanza farms |
large corporate farms |
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Oliver Hudson Kelly |
founder of the Patrons of Husbandry |
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The Grange |
farmers organization which formed Coops |
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Farmer's Alliances |
organizations that sympathized with the farmers |
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Populism |
a movement formed to hear people's voice, mostly farmers and laborers |
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bimetallism |
currency standard using gold and silver to back paper currency |
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gold standard |
backing paper currency with gold |
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William McKinley |
Republican presidential candidate in 1896, firm commitment to the gold standard |
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William Jennings Bryan |
Democratic candidate for presidency in 1896, firm commitment to free soil |