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22 Cards in this Set
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Major Stephen H. Long |
was assinged to the exploration of the region beyond the Mississippi River in 1820. |
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Nomadic People |
Native Americans including Sioux, Comanche, and the Blackfeet. |
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Buffalo |
Frequently killed for their hides and tongues. |
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Transcontinental Railroad |
Railroad building began in the west at a furious pace during the Civil War. |
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Central Pacific |
Company was to run lines east to west. |
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Union Pacific |
Built west to Omanai. |
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Right-of-Way |
6ft into a property is not exactly yours, it is called an easment. |
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Charles Crocker |
Founded the Central Pacific Railroad. |
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Grenville Dodge |
Union army officer on te frontier and pioneering in military intellegence during the Civil War. |
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Promontory Point, Utah |
Southernmost point of the peninsula formed where the Promontory mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake. |
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George Custer |
FIND** |
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Wounded Knee |
Massacre occured on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek. |
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Chief Joseph |
FIND** |
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Dawes Act |
Broke up Native American nations, even on reservations. |
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Vaqueros |
FIND** |
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Mavericks |
An unbranded cattle, multiplied on the open range. |
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Cattle Drives |
There were no railroads directly from Teaxs to the north which resulted in cattle drives. (AKA trails) |
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Chisholm Trail |
A station on te Kansas Pacific Railroad. |
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Fifty-niners |
FIND** |
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Forty-niners |
FIND** |
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Henry Comstock |
FIND** |
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Lode |
FIND** |
