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36 Cards in this Set
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Who was the leader of the 7th calvery in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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George Custer Armstrong
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Frontier
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Undeveloped Area
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Comstock Lode
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Hery Comstock discovered huge deposite of gld and silver in Nevada.
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Boomtowns
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Towns that suddenly grew when mine opened.
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Cattle Kingdom
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Great Plains from texas to Canada were many ranchers raised cattle.
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Cattle Drive
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On these long journeys cowboys hearded cattle to the market or to northers plains for grazing.
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Chisholm Trail
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Ran From San Antonio,Texas to Abilene,Kansas
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Pony Express
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System Of messengers on horse back taht carried messages to the west.
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Transcontinental Railroad
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railroad that would cross the continent and connect the east to hte west.
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Treaty Of Fort Laramie
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1st major treaty between the US and Plains Indians
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Reservations
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Federal Land set aside for Native Americans
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Treaty of Medicine Lodge
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most suthern Plains Indians agreed to love on resrervations.
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Buffalo Soldiers
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Troops including African American Calvary who indians called Buffalo Soldiers
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George Armstrong Custer
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Lieutenant Colnoel.
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Sitting Bull
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Leader of Lakota Sioux
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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Sioux Led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull surrounded and defeated Custer and his troops.
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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US shot 150 Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota
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Long Walk
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Navajo marched 300-mile accross desert to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New mexio.
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Ghost Dance
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Created By Wavoka
religious movemnt that predicted the arrival of paradise for Native Americans. |
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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Tried to lessen traditional influences on Indian socity by making land ownership private rather than shared.
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Homestead Act
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Gave govt owned land to small farmers
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Morril Act
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Granted mroe than 17 acres of federal land to the states.
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Exodusters
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southerners that made mass exodust or departure from soth
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Sodbusters
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AA that worked hard to break up sod earned by Plains farmers.
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Dry Farming
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New metod of farmig that shifted focus away from waterdependant crops such as corn.
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crazy Horse
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led ioux and ambushed cavary troops killing 81
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Sarah Winnemucca
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Paiute Indian-called for reform. Fave lectures on reservation system problems.
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Annie Bidwell
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American Pioneer activist, workes for social nad moral causes for womans sufferage
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National Grange
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social and educational oragnization for farmers.
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Deflation
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Decrease in money supple and overall lover prices.
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William Jennings Bryan
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Populist Politicianm favored free silver coinage, an economic policy axpected to help frmers.
Democratic nominee for prsident in 1896 Defeated by William McKinley |
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Populist Party
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Called for Govt to wn railroads and telephone and telegraph systems. \Also favored free silver.
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Why did the spread of the Ghost Dance concern US officials?
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Though it would lead of rebellion
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How did women particiapate in hte settling of te American Frontier?
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Helped with farming an ranching
helped build communities |
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What reasons did settlers migrate to the West?
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Mining ranching and farming.
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What are Vaqueros?
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Mexican ranch hands who cared for cattle and horses
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