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59 Cards in this Set
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What year were horses introduced to North America?
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1598
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Who introduced horses to North America?
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The Spanish
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What did horses provide to North American?
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Faster speed and transportation
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What did the Dawes Act try to do?
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Assimilate the Native Americans. It was set up to break apart the reservations and introduce the Native Americans to the American life.
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What year was the Dawes Act created?
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1887
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What happened at Wounded Knee?
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350 Sioux Indians were taken Wounded Knee. 300 were slaughtered.
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What ended the "Indian Wars"
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Wounded Knee
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Where was the sight of Custer's "Last Stand"?
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Little Big Horn
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Little Big Horn was whose victory?
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The Native Americans
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What happened in Sand Creek?
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US Army attacked and killed 150 woman and children. Labeled the Sand Creek Massacre.
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Why was Chicago Important?
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It became a major center for beef production and distribution.
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Where was the Chisholm Trail?
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In Abilene, Kansas. The trail met up with the railroads.
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Why was the Chisholm Trail important?
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It was where all the cattle from Texas would be put onto trains to go across the country.
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What did the Homestead Act do?
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Allowed 160 free acres of land to go to any "head of the household" to farm.
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Who were Sooners?
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People in Oklahoma who took land before they were supposed to. Oklahoma became a "sooner state".
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Who were Exodusters?
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African Americans that moved from the South to Kansas.
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What was the organization for farmers called?
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The Grange
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What does Assimilation mean?
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The government wanted the Native Americans to take on the American way of life and give up their own.
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What was the government originally interested in doing to the Indians?
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Seizing their land so that they could mine the gold that was located there.
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Why were buffalo important?
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It was a main resource for the Native Americans. They used every part of the animal.
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What is Bimetallism?
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The idea that both gold and silver should be the basis of the monetary system in the US.
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What did barbed wire do?
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Helped end the era of the cattle frontier.
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What were dugouts?
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Homes dug out of the sides of the hills.
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What were soddies?
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Free standing homes made out of sod (turf).
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Who invented the Reaper?
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Cyrus McCormic
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Who invented the steel plow?
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John Deere
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Who was William Jennings Bryan?
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A democrat that supported Bimetallism. He gave the "Cross of Gold" speech.
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Who were the populists?
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A political group made up of farmers that believed in economic and political reforms as well as changes to the workday schedule and immigration.
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What tribes felt connected spiritually to the land and that the land belongs to everyone?
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Sioux, Osaga, and Cheyenne
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What three things led to the growth of the US in Industry?
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Natural resources, governmental support, and urbanization (cities getting bigger).
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Where was the golden spike laid?
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Promontory Point, Utah
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Who built the Transcontinental Railroad?
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Immigrants from places like China and Ireland.
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What were the effects of the Transcontinental Railroad?
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Railroad company's had a lot of power witch they often abused to get more money, time zones were created, and cites grew.
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What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
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Stockholders of the railroad started a fake company in order to steal money from the railroad company.
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What was the Granger Laws?
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When the Grange protested the railroads treatment of them, each state took over control of the railroads and tried to help farmers by passing laws.
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What was the Interstate Commerce Act establish?
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Interstate Commerce Commission. It controlled and regulated business done between states.
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What did the Sherman Anti-trust Act do?
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Made it illegal to form a monopoly. It was hard to prove though and many companies got away with it.
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What was the Haymarket Affair?
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In Chicago, laborers went to protest the treatment of striking workers by the police. A bomb went off and killed 7 cops and several workers. Many were rounded up and executed for the crime.
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What was the Homestead Strike?
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Carnagies' steel workers struck. He hired guards to protect the new workers but 5 guards and 9 workers died.
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What was the Pullman Strike?
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Pullman laid off thousands of workers and cut pay. The workers began a strike. Debs came in to try and settle it but it turned violent.
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What did Edwin Drake do?
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Helped start an oil boom by using steam engines to drill for oil.
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What did Henry Bessemer do?
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Invented the Bessemer process which was removing carbon from iron to make it more flexible (to make steel).
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What did Thomas Edison do?
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Discovered electricity and invented the light bulb.
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What did Christopher Sholes do?
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Invented the typewriter. It changed the workforce because more woman entered it.
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What did Alexander Bell do?
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Invented the telephone.
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What did Professor Dowd do?
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Came up with time zones.
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What did George Pullman do?
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Started a factory to make sleeper cars and built his own town around it.
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What did Andrew Carnegie do?
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He was a steel industry millionaire and his new ideas changed how people did business like to make better products cheaper.
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What did Samuel Gompers do?
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Became president of the American Federation of Labor and helped to improve working conditions and wages.
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What did Eugene V. Debs do?
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He was an industrial labor union leader and got the railway workers united.
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What did Mary Harris Jones do?
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Organized the United Mine Workers of America. Known as 'Mother Jones"
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What is Vertical Integration?
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When a company owns as many parts to the process as possible.
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What is Horizontal Integration?
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When a company buys all the competition.
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What is a monopoly?
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When you own everything in an industry. Also known as a "trust".
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What is Social Darwinism?
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The idea that having money was a sign of God's favor and that if you were poor it was because you were lazy.
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What were Robber Barons?
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Rich industrialists who made millions in different kinds of industry using any method they could.
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What is Socialism?
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When the government controls everything and then everyone gets a fair share. Everybody gets the same things regardless of your education.
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What does the term wobblies mean?
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Used to describe people in the Industrial Workers of the World, a Socialist union.
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What are Yellow Dog Contracts?
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A contract the swears that you will never go on strike.
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