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20 Cards in this Set
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What caused the mining boom to end?
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a. Cost too high
b.quality of ore dropped |
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What did the cowboys get from the Vaqueros?
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rope and ride, saddle, spurs, lariat chaps
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What are Vigilantes?
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they were people who took the law into their own hands. They caught suspected criminals and punished them without a trial.
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What did the indian use buffalo for?
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they used the buffalo for food, shelter, clothing, and tools and bowls and cooking fuel
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What did the treaties have in common?
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They all took away the Native american's land.
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What were the battles won by the Indians?
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Battle of little big horn, Sand creek, Fetterman Masscare
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What did the Dawes Act do? And why did it fail?
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To encourage Native Americans to give up their land and become farmers.
It failed becuase Many didn't have the tools or money and experience. Not many wanted to be a farmer. |
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Problems faced by the women in the west.
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loneliness, rarely saw neighbors, harshness of life
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How the myth of the west was created.
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it was created by serious novels , myths of larger then life west,shows, dime novels.
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role of the government in the settlement of the west.
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Grabbed land from Native Americans, encouraged settlers to dig for gold (?)
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What was the homestead act?
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Gave farmers 160 acres of land. Had to agree to improve and live on land for 5 years.
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What ethnic groups settled on the Great Plains?
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Swedes, Germans, Norwegians, Russians, Ukrainians and freedmen.
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Problems face by the settlers
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Land was treeless, forced to build homes from sod, fuel-cowchips, dig for water, hailstorms, tornados, fires, drought, grasshopper.
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Inventions that helped settle the west
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barbed wires
steel plow water pumper reapers threshers |
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Why farm prices fell
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Farmers began to be more efficiant and grew more and more crops.
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populist party
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a.k.a People's party.
Wanted goverment to adopt a free silver policy unlimited silver coins. |
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Grange/Cooperatives
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grange- a.k.a Patrons' of husbandry
Main purpose at first had been to meet the social needs of farm families. Then they formed the Cooperatives- org. owned and run by families. Bought supplies in bulks. So farmers could keep more of their earnings. |
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What played an important role in the settlement to the west?
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Railroads
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What caused the cow industry to grow?
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before there were railroads, they cattlers only sold cattles to nearby farmers, now with railroads they can ship it to where ever they want.
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Why was the myth of the old west so popular?
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it was popular becuase to the amercians, the weset had become a larger then life place. Where brave people went out to test their courage.
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