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50 Cards in this Set
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A Medicine Bag
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Waxobe
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Settlers who lived in sod (earthen) Houses
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Sodbuster
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A chief
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Sachem
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Meat mixed with berries and fat
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Pemmican
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The settler’s belief that they had the right to settle the west
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Manifest destiny
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What was the western boundary of the USA in 1803?
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Mississippi river
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Countries that once owned parts of the USA?
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France, Spain, Mexico, Britain
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A Frontiersman with a city named after him in Nevada?
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Kit Carson
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Which religious group settled utah
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Mormons
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What were Names of trails to the west?
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Mormon Trail , California Trail, Gila River Trail, Oregon Trail, Sante Fe Trail, Old Spainish Trail
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1843 Problems
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No rail Roads, no roads, the Missouri has steam boats but no where near the pacific coast, trip by sea to expensive
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Animals used to help settlers travel west
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Mules, Oxen, Horses
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Acts that opened up the west for settlement
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1850 Land Donation Act, 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act, 1862 Homestead Act
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Prairie Schooner
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Conestoga wagon
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To survive winter on the plains what was essential
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Water, Shelter
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What name was given to settlers living in earthen houses?
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Sodbusters
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Indians believe everything in nature has what
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Life Sprite???
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Advantages of tipi
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Warm in winter cold in summer, light and easy to take down and put up,
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What was the worst defeat suffered by the US army
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Battle of little big horn
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What was the main animal factor in ending the Indian way of life?
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Buffalo dying out getting killed for there hides
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What were similarities between the Indian tribes style of fighting
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Close Quarters Combat, Ambush
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What were the tribes that fought each other in last of the Mohicans?
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Mohicans, Huron
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What was one problem on each of the two rail roads being built?
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Central Pacific: Avalanches, tunneling through the Rockies
Union pacific: Indian Attacks |
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Papoose
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Child
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Calumet
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Peace Pipe
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Tipi
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Plains Wigwam
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Travois
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Litter dragged by horse
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Paunch Put
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Buffalo stomach used for cooking
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Wickiup
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Brush Hut
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Cradle Board
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Baby Carrier
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Jerky
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Persevered buffalo meat
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Succotash
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Dish of green corn and beans
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Reservation
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Land for Indian use
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Shaman
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Medicine man
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Parfleche
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Raw hide storage case
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Moccasin
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Shoe
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Kinnikinnick
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Mix of tobacco and herbs
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Hominy
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Corn and water
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Brave
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Warrior
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Squaw
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White term for Indian woman
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Redskin
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Red ochre used to paint body
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Powwow
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Ceremony or Council
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Quirt
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Whip
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Wampum
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Shell Necklace
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Scalping
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Top of head and hair cut with knife
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Counting Coup
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Even better than killing your enemy is touching him
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White Houses
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Soddies, log cabins, Adobbies
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Brigham Young
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Mormon leader
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What Trail to the west goes to San Francisco?
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California
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Why was there such a big jump of people leaving Missouri for the west between 1844-1849
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The gold rush
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