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37 Cards in this Set
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Sand Creek California
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site of indian massacre by militia forces in 1864
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Little Big Horn
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site of serious but temporary US Amry defeat in the Sioux War of 1876-1877
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux "medicine mam" and leader of an uprising 1876-1877
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Cheif Joseph
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leader of the Nez Perce tribe who cnducted a brilliant but unsuccessful military campaign in 1877
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Geronimo
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leader of the Apaches of Arizone in their warfare with the whites
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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Massachusetts writer whose books aroused sympathy for the plight of the Native Americans
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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bloody affair that resulted when the federal government attempoted to stamp out the indians scared "Ghost Dance"
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Pikes Peak, Colorado
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site of a mojor gold discovery, 1858-1859, the drew fortune seekers to the Rocky Mountains
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Oliver H Kelley
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leading organizer of the Grange, who initially stressed social ritual and education for farmers
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James B Weaver
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former Civil War general and Granger who ran as the Greenback Labor party candidate for president in 1880
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Mary E Lease
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eloquent Kansas Populist who urged famers to "raise less corn and more hell"
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Ignatius Donnelly
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leading Populist roator and congressmen from Minnesota
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Sioux
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major nothern pains Indian nation that fought and eventually lost a bitter war against the US Army 1876-1877
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Appache
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southwestern Indians led by Geronimo who were finally conquered and forced to settle in Oklahoma
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reservations
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generally poor areas where vanquished indians were eventually confined under federal control
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"Ghost Dance"
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idian religious movement, originiating out of the sacred Sun Dance, that the federal government attempted to stamp out in 1890
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DOS act
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federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish indians as individual farmers
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Com Staulkload
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huge silver and gold deposit that brough wealth and statehood to Nevada
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Long Drive
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general term for the herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the railroad termianls of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming
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Homestead 1862
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federal law that offered generous land opportunities to poorer farmers but also provided the unscrupulous with opportunioties for hoaxes and fruad
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bardwire
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improved type of fencing that enabled farmers to ebclose land on the treeless plains
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Oklahoma
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former "Indian Territory" where "sooners" tried to get the jump on "boomeres" when it was opened for settlement in 1889
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safety
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the theory that the availablitiy of the frontier lessened social conflict in America by providing economic opportunities for eastern workers
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grange
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farmers organization that began as a secret social group and expanded into such activityes as profarmer politics and lawmaking
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greenback part
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short lived profarmer third party that gained over a million votes and elected fourteen congressmen in 1878
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farmers alliance
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board based organizations of the 1880s that drew both black and white agriculturists into social, economic and political activity
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populous party
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thirt political party that emerged in the 1890s to express rural grievance and mount major attacks on the Democrats and Republicans
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the encroachment of the white settlements and the violation of treaties with indians
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led to nearly constante warfare with plains Indians from 1868 to about 1890
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rail lines, disease and the destruction of the buffalo
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decimated Inian populations and hastened their defeat at the hands of advancing whites
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reformers attempts to make native Americans conform to white ways
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further undermined native Americans traditional tribal culture and morale
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the coming of big business mining and stock raising to the west
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ended the romantic, colorful era of the miners and cattlmens frontier
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"dry farming", barded wire and irrigation
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made it possible to farm the dry, treeless areas of the Great Plains and the West
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the passing of the frontier of 1890
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created new psycholofical and economic problems of a natin accustomed to a boundless open West
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the growing economic specialization of the western agriculturalists
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made the farmers vulnerable to vast industtrial and market forces beyond their control
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the decline of farm prices and the static money supply
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created severe deflation and forced famers deeper into debt
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the inabilty of individualistic farmers to organize economically
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led grain and cotton growers to turn from economics to politics as a solution for their grievances
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the racial divisions between white and black famers
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prevented famers in the South from forming a united front to promote their interests
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