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59 Cards in this Set
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Manifest destiny
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argument that it was the undeniable fate of the United States to expand across North America
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Homestead Act
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1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens who met certain conditions
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Morill Land Grant Act
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Passed by Congress in 1862 this law distributed millions of acres of western lands to state governments in order to fund state agriculutral colleges
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long drive
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moving of cattle from distant ranges to busy railroad centers that shipped the cattle
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Exoduster
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An African American who migrated to the west after the civil war
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Reservation
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Federal land set aside for Native American
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Dawes Act
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1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots
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bonanza farms
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farm controlled by large businesses, managed by professionals, and raising massive quantities of single cash crops
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Grange
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established in 1867 and also known as the patrons of husbandry this organization helped farmers form cooperatives and pressured state legislators to regulate businesses on which farmers depended
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Manifest destiny
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argument that it was the undeniable fate of the United States to expand across North America
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Homestead Act
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1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens who met certain conditions
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Morill Land Grant Act
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Passed by Congress in 1862 this law distributed millions of acres of western lands to state governments in order to fund state agriculutral colleges
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long drive
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moving of cattle from distant ranges to busy railroad centers that shipped the cattle
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Exoduster
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An African American who migrated to the west after the civil war
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Reservation
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Federal land set aside for Native American
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Dawes Act
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1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots
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bonanza farms
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farm controlled by large businesses, managed by professionals, and raising massive quantities of single cash crops
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Grange
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established in 1867 and also known as the patrons of husbandry this organization helped farmers form cooperatives and pressured state legislators to regulate businesses on which farmers depended
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populism
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1. an increased ciruclation of $
2. The inlimited minting of silver 3. A progressive income tax 4. goverment ownership of railroad |
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soddie
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home made of sod
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Massacre of Wounded Knee
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where 200 Sioux were slaughtered
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Little Big Horn
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Custer's last stand, all 200 of his men slaughtered by Sioux warriors
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helldorado
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towns set up for mining
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ranch
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a large farm set up for farming
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prospector
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someone who set out to strike it rich as a miner
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buffalo soldiers
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African Americans who fought for /u.S against indians
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indian wars
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19th century conflict with natives over control of American west
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farmers alliance
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a group formed in the 1870s stressed unity and cooperation amongst farmers
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux chief who fought to save Native American Land
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Chief Joseph
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Nez Perce chief who fought to maintain the promise he made to his father to keep Native American Land
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George Custer
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U.S general who mainly fought native american. Was killed along with his troops at the battle of Little Big Horn
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Oliver O Howard
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General who offered to by land from Nez Perce indians
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William Jennings Bryan
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a former silverite congressmen from Nebraska and a powerful speaker captured the Democratic nomination with an emotional plea for free silver
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William Techumseh Sherman
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U.S general who overruled the Nez Perce getting their land back because of them taking tourists hostage during warfare
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James B. Weaver
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Populist candidate from Iowa who won barely a million votes in the 1892
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Tom Watson
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Populist nominee for president in 1904
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speculator
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someone who buys land with intent of selling it for a profit
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squatter
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someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
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Nez Perce war
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The conflict the U.S had with Nez Perce after the Nez Perce refused to move onto reserved land
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tariff
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tax on imported goods imported into a country
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Omaha platform
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In 1890 farmer organizations worked to elect 5 U.S. senators, 6 governors and 46 congressmen
Based on this electoral success they held a national coalition in Omaha, NE in 1892 |
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Define: American West
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Constantly changing- west of Mississippi Pacific Northwest Plains/ Southwest
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4 Motives for Westward Expansion
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-chance to be your own boss
- chance to own your own land - chance to flee racial prejudice - chance to strike it rich |
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How was land made available
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-Land grants from companies
- Morrill Land Grant Act -Homestead Act |
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Hardships of Westward expansion
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-competition for good land
-conflict with Natives - inexperience with frontier life |
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Industries of the west
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Railroad, timber and mining (received land grants from the government
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hardships of the homestead
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-environment dicated crops
- water was limited, rain water collected led to disease |
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Sitting Bull was born in
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1830
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Sitting Bull was a member of the __________ tribe
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Hunkpapa
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Impacts of Westward Expansion on Native Americans
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-relocated to reservations or killed
-most of the population killed off |
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- Differing perspectives of Native Americans and White Settlers
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-Native Americans saw the land as sacred, the settler saw it as possession
- white schools for native Americans |
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African Americans in the west
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Buffalo soldiers, escaped some racial prejudice
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Geronimo
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leader of the Apache tribe who lead a band of renegades
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Black Kettle
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Cheyenne cheif who led a Peace Campaign, but his between 150-500 of his people were slaughtered at the Sand Creek Massacre
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Crazy Horse
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Sioux Cheif who clashed with The U.S after the U.S forged the Laramie treaty, he was later killed after Custers last stand
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Red Cloud
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Sioux Cheif who led a two year campaign to block the U.S's plan to build a road through the black hills
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Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
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African American who led a group of Southern Blacks on a mass "exodus" to the west based on the Israelites flight from Egypt
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Kit Carson
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American fronteirsman who fought against the Navajo Indians
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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General who overturned the decision to let the Nez Perce back onto their land
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