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17 Cards in this Set
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Bureau fo Indian Affairs
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Governmant agency charged with caring for the Indians
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Assimilated
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Assimilated-into white culture
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Dawes Act
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It tried to speed up the "Americanization" of the Indians.
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Railheads
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Railroad shipping stations
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Long Drive
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The movement of cattle north from Texas.
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Exodusters
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A migration of poor southern blacks to the West in 1879
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Homestead Act
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Offered 1600 acres of land free to any American citizen over 21 and head of family.
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Dry Farming
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Practice designed to gain the most value from every rainfall.
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Sod
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Thickly matted soil.
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Bonanza Farmsd
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Large farms financed by outside capital.
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Placer Mining
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Mining the deposits of a stream bed.
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Quartz Mining
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Blasting rock from a mountainside and then crushing it to seperate gold from rock.
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Log Drive
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Logs are floated downstream to a sawmill.
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Turner thesis
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Claimed that the frontier had distinguished the United States from Europe.
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Dime Novels
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Cheap and plentiful books from fiction writers after the Civil War.
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National Park Service
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Government agency to run protected land areas.
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Conservation
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The preservation and wise uses of the nation's natural resources.
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