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9 Cards in this Set
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Dawes Act
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-End Indian ownership of land
-walk the white mans road |
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Technological Advances were:
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1. Barbed wire
2. Beef Cattle Raising 3. Dry Farming 4. Steel Plows 5. Sod Houses 6. Railroads |
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The Transcnontinental Railroad was built to:
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Link the Eastern and Western states together
and most employed were immigrants |
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Who settled the West?
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-Cowboys/ranchors
-Miners -Farmers -Railroad Workers |
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Fort Laramie Treaty:
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The right to live and hunt on their land forever and they would recieve money, tools, and domestic animals if they stayed on their land
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Physical features/Climates of the Great Plains were:
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-Frequent duststorms
-Little Rainfall -Land was eroded by wind and water -Flatlands gradually rose from East to West |
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What caused the destruction of Native American way of life?
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-extermination of buffalo
-forcibly pushed into reservations by the U.S. government -treaties were constantly broken by the U.S. -Settlers invaded their land |
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Why did Westward Expansion occur?
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It occured because of the Homestead Act, opportunities for former slaves, the thought of finding gold or silver, and because of technological advances.
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The Homestead Act was:
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-when the government granted 160 acres of land in the West if the people built a house on the land and worked it for five years. They also had to be an American citizen
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