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20 Cards in this Set
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Homestead Act
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offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household
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2 main railroads; direction they moved
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Central Pacific moved eastward from Sacremento; Union move eastward from Omaha; met up on Proxiemty Point, Utah
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4 Inventions the tamed the Prairie
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Barbed wire, Reaper, Steel Plow, Steel Windmill
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How did railroads take advantage of the farmers?
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Made them pay high prices to transport grain, influenced market price of crops and had secret agreements with middlen, alliance sent lectures from town to town
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Who are the Gold Bugs?
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bankers and buisnessmen
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Who are the Silverites?
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farmers and laborers
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What did the GB's want?
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Gold standard; less money in circulation
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What did the Silverites want?
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bimetallism; more money in circulation
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Why did GB's want this?
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Loans would be repaid in stable money
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Why did silverites want this?
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products sold at higher price
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What were the effects of GB?
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deflation, prices fall, value of moeny increases, fewere poeple have money.
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What were the effects of Silverites?
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Inflation, prices rise, more poeple have money, value of money decreases.
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In what ways did government policies encourage settlement in the west?
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Homestead act; more land
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Which group of poeple were buisness owners and from the NE?
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republicans
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Which group of poeple were farmers and laborers from the S and W
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Democrats
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Define Frontier
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Imaginary line dividing civilization from wilderness
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reasons for westward migration
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adventure, improvement of economic conditions, greater social and political democracy
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3 Indians
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Cheyene, Sioux, Comanche
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Jobs of a cowboy
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trail boss, chuck wagon, pointes at the front of the herd, drags at the back for stranglers
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Ag increased by?
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better machinery, seeds, fertilizers
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