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43 Cards in this Set
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Settlers wanted to convert N.A. to what religion? |
Christianity |
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Who believed that one can't own/buy land? |
Native Americans |
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How did the settlers claim land? |
Buying the land from current owners. |
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How did settlers get land from N.A.? |
Traded goods |
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When did the N.A. start to believe that something wasn't right? |
When settlers started to build homes on land that they "bought" from Native Americans. |
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What were the Great Plains? |
The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the U.S. |
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Treaty of Fort Laramie |
-forced on the leaders of the Sioux -the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Mississippi River |
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What is assimilation? |
A plan under which N.A. would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture. |
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The Dawes Act |
-designed to assimilate the N.A. -Broke up the reservations and gave some land to individual N.A. |
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Was the Dawes Act a success? |
NO TOTAL FAILURE |
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What did the government end up doing with the N.A.s after the Dawes Act failed? |
Just put them back on reservations. |
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Massacre at Sand Creek |
150 Cheyenne killed by the U.S. army |
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Red River War |
Kiowa and Comanche raids led to war between U.S. and Southern Plains Indians. The result was the end of resistance on the Southern Plains. |
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The Battle of LIttle Big Horn |
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull led their Sioux warriors into battle against Col. George Custer. Ended up destroying the entire 7th Cavalry. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee |
350 Sioux rounded up by the 7th Cavalry and massacred. |
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How did the government end up settling the Native Americans? |
Putting the tribes on U.S. land that is useless to the U.S. (dessert areas) |
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Railroads linked the ____ and _____? |
East and West |
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Most railroad work was done by who? |
Immigrants |
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The Homestead Act |
Offered 162 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen. |
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Oklahoma was opened in what year? |
1889 |
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Why does the U.S. government want the citizens to claim land westward? |
So that other countries can't claim it and with people everywhere there will be a better economy. |
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What kind of people moved to the plains? |
-Citizens looking for a new life in the West -Immigrants looking for new opportunities |
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Who moved to Wisconsin and Minnesota? |
Swedish and Norwegian immigrants |
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Hardships from living in the plains... |
-Had to farm the whole land -Very bad and scary weather -Horrible living conditions -Loneliness |
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What kind of houses did the plains people live in? |
Sod Houses |
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What is the U.S. dollar backed up by? |
The stable government and stable economy. |
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Why is the dollar what it is? |
Because everyone believes in it. |
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What were the plains farmers getting charged more for? |
-Transporting goods -Storage of goods -Connecting trains |
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The Grange |
An unsuccessful alliance formed by farmers. |
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Why is the Populist Party formed? |
To ask for help from the government because of the unfair prices for farmers. |
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Bessemer Process |
Taking iron and putting air in it to push the impurities out and the result is steel. |
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What can steel make more of? |
-Buildings -Farm equipment -Railroads |
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Results of electricity? |
working longer and factories could be built anywhere. |
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Vertical Integration |
When you control every step in the process of making a product. |
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People lose jobs from what two processes? |
Vertical and Horizontal Integration |
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What did Vertical Integration do to the Middle Man? |
ELIMINATED |
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Point of Vertical and Horizontal Integration? |
To make as much money as possible. |
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Horizontal Integration |
Merging companies to make more money and to eliminate competition between companies. |
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Why do consumers like it when companies compete? |
The items get cheaper. |
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Social Darwinism |
The less-suited people die off and the best-adapted survive. |
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What was social darwinism used to justify? |
The Laissez Faire |
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The Sherman Antitrust Act |
-Made trusts (agreements where companies didn't compete) illegal, but mostly ignored. -FIRST time government tried to help the people |
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Labor Unions |
Workers came together to improve themselves by protesting and complaining about work requirements. |
