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30 Cards in this Set
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Great Plains
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the grassland extending through the west-central portion of the US
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Homestead Act
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passed in 1862; Congress offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who would live on it and cultivate it for at least five years
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exoduster
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blacks who moved from the post- reconstruction south to Kansas in a great exodus
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Sand Creek Massacre
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an attack by US soldiers on a Cheyenne encampment in the Colorado Territory in 1864 in which 200 Native American men, women, and children were killed
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Sitting Bull
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(Tatanka Yotanka) a medicine man and leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux who never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie
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Geroge A. Custer
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civil war hero and colonel in the Seventh Calvary
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assimilation
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a plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture
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Dawes Act
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in 1887, passed to try to make assimilation the government policy
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Ghost Dance
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a Native American ritual in tended to bring about the restoration of tribal life, popular among the Sioux prior to the Battle of Wounded Knee
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Battle of Wounded Knee
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the 1890 massacre by US soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, SD
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longhorn
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a breed of sturdy, long horned cattle brought to Mexico by the Spanish and suited to the dry conditions of the N.West
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James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
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scout and spy during the Civil War and a marshal in Abilene, Kansas; violent man who shot and killed while card playing
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Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane)
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expert markswoman who dressed as a man
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long drive
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the moving of cattle over trails to a shipping center
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homesteader
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settlers on the free land of the Homestead Act
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soddy
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like a dugout or a sod home in the broad flat plians made with stacking blocks and prarie turf
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Morrill Land Grant Acts
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1862 and 1890 which gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges
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bonanza farm
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enormous single crop spreads of 10000 acres or more
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Hatch Act of 1887
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established agricultural experiment stations to communicate new developments in agriculture to farmers in every state
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Oliver Kelly
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a farmer who started the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867
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Grange
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Patrons of Husbandry/ an organization of farmers for social outlet and educational forums
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Populism
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the movement of the people which bore the Populist's or People's Party in 1892
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bimetalism
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a policy in which the government would give people either silver or gold in exchange for paper currency or checks
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William McKinley
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a republican Ohioan that was nominated for president in 1896
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William Jennings Bryan
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a former member of Congress who delivered the "Cross of Gold" speech and the editor of the Omaha World - Herald magazine
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"Cross of Gold" speech
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a peech that targeted the "gold bugs" who insisted the US currency be backed with only gold
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The Panic of 1893
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After farmers and businesspeople had overextended themselves with debts and loans a panic occurred for the economy
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Edwin L. Drake
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succesfully used a steam engien to drill for oil near Titusville, PA
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Bessemer process
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a cheap efficient process for making steel developed around 1850
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Thomas Alva Edison
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became the first pioneer on the new industrial frontier hen he established the world's first research lab in Menlo Park, NJ
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