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Where did the mining boom begin |
California in 1849
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what mine yielded over $300 million in silver and gold |
Comstock Load
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how was the big money in mining made |
boom towns- towns that served the miners by providing banks, hotels, grocers, and entertainers |
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describe mining conditions |
dangerous and unsafe bc of: dynamite, shafts, ventilation system back ups and filled with gas, sparks + gas = explosions, floods, cave ins; 1:80 miners died |
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define boom town |
town rapid growth due to sudden prosperity |
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define ghost town |
abandoned boom towns; usually abandoned within 10 yrs |
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what did the Pacific Railway Act do |
gave railroad companies loans, incentives, and land grants |
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what year was the Pacific Railway Act |
1862 |
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where did the Union Pacific build the railroad |
east to west starting in Omaha, NE |
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who worked for the Union Pacific |
irish |
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where did the Central Pacific build their railroad |
west to east starting in Sacramento, CA |
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where did the 2 railroads meet |
Promontory Point, Utah |
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what created a cow town |
where cowboys spent their wages; murder, gambling, and immortality surrounded cow towns |
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what are some examples of cow towns |
Wichita, Dodge City, Abilene |
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what percent of cowboys were Hispanic, Freedmen, or Indian |
20-30% |
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why did the cattle boom end |
90% of cattle died in the blizzard of 1887, invention of barbed wire |
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when did the cattle boom end |
1887 |
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what was the Homestead Act |
gave 160 acres to anyone who lived on the land and made improvements to it for 5 years |
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when was the Homestead Act |
1862 |
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what was the nickname given to homesteaders |
soddies |
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what was a homesteaders house called |
sodbuster |
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what were exodusters |
people from the south who moved to Kansas and Nebraska hoping they were more tolerable |
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what inventions did homesteaders use |
barbed wire, steel plow, and windmill |
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what was the Oklahoma Land Rush |
people raced to settle the last available land |
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when was the Oklahoma Land Rush |
1889 |
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what Treaty recognized Indians claim to the Great Plains |
Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851 and the Ft. Atkinson Treaty of 1853 |
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what was the treaty of Medicine Lodge |
southern most Indians agreed to live on reservations, 1867 |
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what is a reservation |
made to civilize Indians and clear the land |
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how did they respond to the reservation system |
fights, battles, wars |
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what is the Bozeman trail |
trail to gold that was closed by the Lakota indians in Red Cloud's War |
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what happened at the Fetterman Massacre |
Lakota indians and Red Cloud lured Captain Fetterman and 81 soldiers to a death trap in Red Cloud's War |
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when was the Red Cloud War |
1866-19867 |
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who is Geronimo |
led 3 outbreaks from 1877-1886 |
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what happened at Wounded Knee |
a 7th Cavalry massacre Big Foot's band in 1890; 300 Lakota men, women, and children were killed, 50 wounded, and 25 troops were killed; ended the Ghost Dance movement |
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who, what, when, where, why is it important:
reservation system
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The US government made the idea of reservation systems in 1867. It was meant to civilize the Native Americans. Reservations where located across the plains and in Montana. The reservation systems were important because the disagreements caused by them led to many wars and fatalities. |
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who, what, when, where, why is it important:
Red Cloud's War |
Red Cloud's War took place in 1866-1867 and was fought by the Lakota Indians and the US government. It started when settlers found gold on the Indian's reservation. Two main battles of the war include The Fetterman Massacre in 1866 and The Wagon Box Fight in 1867. The war was fought in Montana. Red Cloud's War was important because it closed the Bozeman Trail. |
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who, what, when, where, why is it important:
Homestead Act |
Congress passed the Homestead Act in 1862. It gave 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to live on it and make improvements to the land. The land included much of the great plains. This was important because it sparked the movement west and gave settlers 11 million acres of former Indian land. |
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who, what, when, where, why is it important:
transcontinental railroad |
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869 and connected the east to the west. The Pacific Railway Act of 1862, passed by Congress, gave railroad companies like Union Pacific and Union Central loans and land grants to make the railroad. It was important because it connected the US in ways never imagined and what used to be a 6 month voyage now only took 6 days.
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who, what, when, where, why is it important:
Battle of Little Bighorn |
The Battle of Little Bighorn was when Sitting Bull defeated Custer and his men on June 25, 1876. The war started when we discovered gold on the Sioux reserve in Montana and the Dakotas. This battle was important because it showed that Indians could beat the US in battle and it sparked many other wars and caused many casualties. |
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who, what, when, where, why is it important:
Ghost Dance Movement |
The Ghost Dance Movement started when Wovoka, a Paiute Indian, had a vision that if they performed a special dance, they would go to a land with their ancestors to live in peace with the buffaloes. Tribes from all over heard about it. This is important because the government now feared a rebellion. |
