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57 Cards in this Set
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Which two indian trips developed into nomadic tribes with the introduction of the horse?
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Cheyenne and Sioux
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They both hunted...
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buffalo
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Treaties at Fort Laramie in 1851 and Fort Atkinson in 1853 marked the beginning of what system?
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reservation
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Large reservation at...
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"Great Sioux Reservation"
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One fifth of the army on frontier was African American... named...
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"Buffalo Soldiers"
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Where were four hundred indians killed in cold blood?
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Sand Creek Colorado
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Fetterman massacre led to one of the few short lived indian triumphs at the....
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battle of the little bighorn
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Who led a "scientific" expedition into the "sioux" reservation?
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Custer
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What does Goyankla mean?
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One who yawns
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Book that made fun of americas treatment of indians?
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A Century of Dishonor
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Where army stamped out so called "ghost dance" religious indian movement?
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Battle of wounded knee
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Act that encouraged individualism in indians in order to turn them into "good white settlers"
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Dawes Severalty Act
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People that were sent to tribes to teach women how to sew and other values?
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Field matrons
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What was pemmican?
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thin stripes of smoke buffalo flesh mixed with berries and stuffed in bags
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What was called the "Indian New Deal"
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Indian reorganization Act
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Fifty niners went into... to find...
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Nevada Comstock Lode, gold and silver
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What new method of mining was used?
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hydraulic mining
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What percent did native americans live on of US in 2000?
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2%
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Senators from west known as
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"silver senators"
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terminal points to bring cattle known as?
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"cow towns"
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Association created to organize cattle industry?
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Wyoming Stock growers association
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what was the "bacbone of democracy"?
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family farm
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Name of people who traveled to plains to farm?
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"Sodbusters"
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Powell warned that past the ____ it was too costly (not enough rain) to farm
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100th meridian
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What solved the problem of fencing in cattle/crops?
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barbed wire perfected by Glidden
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"the centennial state"
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Colorado
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1889-1890 what happened to states?
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six new states admitted to repub congress
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"the beautiful land"
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Oaklahoma
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People who went to Oaklahoma early
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"sooners" "eighty niners"
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state named ...
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"sooner state"
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What happened for the first time in the 1890 census?
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a frontier line was no longer discenible
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Theory that when hard times came, unemployed moved west
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safety valve theory
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"American history has been in large degree the history of colonization of the great west"
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Turner
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Royal Canadian police AKA
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Mounties
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New agriculture invention....
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reaper thresher
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Who described CA as "not a country of farms but a country of plantations and estates"
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George
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What destroyed cotton?
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cotton boll weevil
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First organized farmer group?
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Grange
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After Wabash decision Grange died out.. followed by...
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Greenback Labor party
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Farmers alliance led to
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Peoples party or populists
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Who was the queen of the populist calamity howerls?
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Mary Elizabeth mary yellin
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March led by ___ to washington to ask for 500 million in inflation
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General Coxey
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Named the _____ of Coxeyites
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"commonweal Army"
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Labor leader Debs led what?
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Pullman Strike
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"No strike has ever been lost"
"The issue is socialism versus Capitalism. I am for socialism because I am for humanity" |
Debs
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"If it take the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered"
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Cleveland
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"the boy orator of the Platte"
great speaker nominated for the democrats |
Bryan
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Democratic platform was...
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16 : 1 (ratio of silver to gold)
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leader with Mckinley named "dollar mark ____ " and was chairman of repub national committee
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Hanna
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Election of 1896 AKA
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free silver election
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Scholars named the political area of chapter as...
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fourth party system
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Tariff passed that raised rates to 46%?
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Dingley Tariff bill
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southwestern Indian tribe led by geronimo that carried out some of the last fight against white conquest
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apache
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Indian religious movement originating out of the sacred sun dance that he federal government attempt to stamp out in 1890
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ghost dance
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general term for the herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the railroad terminals
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long drive
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Turners argument that the continual westward migration into unsettled territory has been the primary force shaping American character and society
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frontier thesis
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Pamphlet written by william harvey that portrayed pro silver arguments triumphing over the traditional views of bankers and economics professors
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Coins Financial School
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