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12 Cards in this Set
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SIOUX WARS
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Powerful clan of Indians, fighting battles of expansion with other Indians, led to federman massecure, where they killed the white soldiers
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ASSIMILATION POLICY
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Made Indians like white males, religion, edu, wardrobe, land allotment
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BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN RIVER 1876
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Army tried to put back on reservation. Wiped out everyone. Lt col George Custer
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DAWES “ALLOTMENT” ACT 1887
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Indians own land to farm, whites took reservation and allotted Indians own section
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PLACER MINING
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Easy, above ground mining
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QUARTZ MINING
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Real weath came from, hard rock, underground mining, gold bound in quarts, machinery!!!
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GOODNIGHT-LOVING TRAIL
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trail used in the cattle drives of the late 1860s fro the large scale movement of texas longhorns
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REFRIGERATOR CARS
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RR Cars used by ranchers/farmers to keep product fresh for sale in east
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HOMESTEAD ACT 1862
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Lincoln “free” 160 acres, improving it, enlarged it for ppl to get 320 acres of land. Many ppl borrowed money, debt, Kansas
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1872 MINING LAW
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Ppl could make a claim to minerals found on public land, led to privat ownership, fed govt encouraged mining in west
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CAMPBELLS DRY FARMING
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Way of growing crops on the dry prairie that didn’t involve so much water. Broke up prairie, led to dust bowl
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BONANNZA FARMS
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Big companies who put in big farms in which they managed like RR. Mass farming to take care of market after war. Heavily mechanized and work laborers.
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