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18 Cards in this Set
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What does the Dawes Severalty Act eliminate?
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tribal culture and focues on each individual becoming an American citizen
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What was significant about the Ghost Dance?
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symbolic loss of traditional NA culture
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What was a critical invention?
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barbed wire
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Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
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She wrote a Century of Dishonor that called for citizenship and assimiliation but a lot faster than the Severalty Act
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What was the first state to grant women's suffrage?
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Wyoming
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Why was the railroad so important in settling the west?
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It helped opened up opportunity for more and more people to get out west
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What was another reason besides gold for going out west?
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Silver.
--Comstock Lode |
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By many factors inviting people out west..what was a factor of this?
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It created a melting pot
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what were ways to glamorize the west?
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dime novels
. Example: The Virginian by Owen Wister which portrays cowboy as a Christian Knight representing all that is good in the world |
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what was the frontier thesis?
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1893—Fredrick Jackson Turner asdit eh frontier helps to continue expansion of exceptional characteristics and through developing the frontier we create our own culture that make us more American
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what was "rugged individualism"
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was used in the Frontier Thesis and allows Americans to live out the American dream
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what was society like in the late half of the 1800s?
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community oriented, more liberal with female enfranchisement, min were working alongside women which led to a more respected view
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what was this safety valve idea?
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--frontier acts a safety valve for people who struggled in the city which reinforced the exceptionalism of America
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Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 significance
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- it continues the frontier myth- demonstrates continuing power of tying "free" land to the ideal economic opportunity
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what were the pros and cons of the new technology?
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-new technology=more efficient
ex: steel plows, barbed wire cons: -technology and demand gave false hope of long term prosperity -dependent on railroad for shipping -specialized in cash crops -vulnerable to fluctating markets |
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what helped greatly in settling the west
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the transcontinental railroad
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Fort Laramie Treaty
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agreement that Native Americans would stay on reservation in return for money and provisions
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Homestead act of 1862
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created to help settle the west and help the poor achieve independence
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