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20 Cards in this Set
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Cattle Drives
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A method used by ranchers in order to make money by using the railroad
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Barbwire
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Useful invention by Joseph Glidden that helped ranchers control their cattle
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Dawes Act
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Encouraged Americanization of Native Americans by making them private land owners
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Buffalo Soliders
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African Americans who were members of the US Army during the Indian wars
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Windmills
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Most important invention of the west that increased the area that could be used for agriculture
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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1876 US Army defeat at the hands of the Lakota Sioux
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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Event in South Dakota that was ultimately the final engagement between US forces and Plains Indians
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William Jennings Bryan
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Populist leader who was Democratic representative in the election of 1896. Also gave the "Cross of Gold" speech
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Homestead Act
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1862 move by the US Congress to give 160 acres of "free" land to farmers who wanted to go to the West
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Morill Land Grant Act
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Move by US Congress to award land for the creation of schools that focused on agriculture and mechanic arts
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Oklahoma Land Rush
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Massive movement to move Western to a particular region that had "unassigned lands"
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Comstock Lode
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Discovery of silver in the Carson River area of Nevada
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Bimetalism
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the belief that gold or silver should be used to back up government money
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Interstate Commerce Act
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The first time the federal government regulates and industry in US history
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Refrigerator Car
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Railroad invention that would help transport perishable goods over long distances
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Completed in Promontory, Utah in 1869, this connected the two coasts together through quick transportation
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Sitting Bull
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Leader of the Lakota Sioux who was involved in the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Sand Creek Massacre
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1864 event in which roughly 150 Cheyenne were killed, leaving the US public outraged
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Vertical Intergration
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Owning all means of production for a certain product
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Horizontal Intergration
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Similiar firms merging together
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