Chapter 13 Us History

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Morril Land Grant Act

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act that created the land grant colleges for the study of agriculture

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homestead act

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gave 160 acres to ayone who would liveon the land out west

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exodusters

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name given to the blakc americans who settled in the west after the Civil War

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5 problems farmers faced in the west

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1. lack of wood
2. no water
3. Indians
4. range wars
5. nature

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sod

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what people built their houses out of when they had no wood

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Joseph Gilden

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inventor of barbed wire

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Dry farming

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technique of growing/raising crops in areas that received very little rain

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Treaty of Ft. Laramie

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Said settlers could travel through indian land as along as they didn't stop and settle

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reservations

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land set aside by the government for indians to settle on

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Battle of Little Big Horn

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take place in the lower part of Montana ak Custards last stand, a sioux indina victory over the troops of General Custard army

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Colt 45

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the gun that won the west

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Buffalo soldiers

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name the indians gave to the black soliders who went out west to fight

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battle of wounded knee

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considered to be the last of the indian battles in which over 200 unarmed indians were killed by the government

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ghost dance

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a belief among reservation indinas that if they danced long enough, the spirits of the warriors would return and they would get their lands back

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Dawes act

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gave 160 acres of reservation land to the head of each indian family fi they would become americanized

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joseph mccoy

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man that started the railheads for the shipping of cattle

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long drive

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moving of cattle from distant ranges to the rairoad centers that shipped them to the market

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trails used by cowboys

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goodnight loving trail
western trail
chisholm trail
sedalia trail
shawnee trail

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bonanza farms

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large farms controlled by large businesses and run by professionals

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placer mining

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where you pan for gold

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comestock load

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largest sivler mine ever discovered in the United States

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Klondike Strike

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last gold strike in America (alaska)

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Levi Strauss

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made clothing for miners and farmers

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John Cash Penny

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Started the golden ruled store provided supplies for th eminers

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dime novels

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little bookst hat built up the mystic legends of the west

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Yellowstone

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first national park in America

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1890

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the government said there was no longer a frontier in America