Unit 4 Notes & Study Guide Vocab

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Homestead Act

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1862
to give settlers free land to develop into farms.

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Morrill Land-Grant Act

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give federal land to state governments in order to establish agricultural colleges.

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Brigham young

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they had to leaver and go west because of slavery. Made huge farms in the desserts and now its the largest city.

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Oklahoma Land Rush

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A race to claim land
government sponsored

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Sod houses

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made out of soil matted with grass roots.

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Exodusters

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Groups of African Americans that migrated west after the civil war.
They were promised new land and communities.

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Buffalo Soldiers

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African Americans assigned to keep Native Americans On the land set aside to them

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Promontory Point

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Utah.
Where Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies met tracks

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Tanscontinental Railroad

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Set off a population and transportation explosion out west.

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Irish & Chinese Immigrants

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recruited for construction of railroads, using picks, shovels, and dynamite to carve out a route across the continent.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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prohibit further immigration from china.

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Refrigerated Car

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took meats to the west to feed people

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Mexican Vaqueros

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introduced the spanish culture of the horse to western settlers and influenced how cattle were handled on the open fields.

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Comstock Lode

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sent hordes of prospectors in search of silver which also affected the economy and politics of this time.

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Chief Joseph (of the Nez Perce)

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Risted to leave oregon and relocate to idaho.
Attempted march to canade but were captured and sent to Oklahoma

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Battle of Little Big Horn

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fought between the US calvary and a force of sioux and Northern Cheyenne Warriors.

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Sitting Bull

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Discovery of gold lef to a rush of prospectors and settlers in the black Hills, resulted in this.

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Ghost dance

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Promised the return of native lands the rise of dead ancestors, the disappearence of whites, and a future of eternal epeace and prosperity.

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Wounded Knee

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When sitting bull was arrested shots were fired. Army Searched camp for weapons. Shots fired 370 sioux people died.

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Sand Creek Massacre

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group of white men killed over 200 ppl, caught sleeping in camp.

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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writer of "a century of dishonor"
Mistreatment and betrayal of American Indians by the US government

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uncle Toms Cabin

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describe the treaties that the government had broken and its ways of forcing indians to live on useless land

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Dawes Severalty Act

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converted tribal lands to individual ownership and extended land grants to individual indians.

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Assimilate

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American Citizens ---> into the general culture.

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John Deere's Steel Plow

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Tilling the heavy prairie soil in the west,

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Cyrus McCormick's Mechanical reaper

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harvesting less labor intensive

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Windmills

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brought water up from deep wells, and farmers began to irrigate huge farmlands

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rebates

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Gave better rates to favored customers, angering many farmers.

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Interlocking Directorates

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allowed railroads to fix prices and avoid competition

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Vertical Integration

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Carnegie bought companies that sold supplies to his steel mills and those that transported his product.