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31 Cards in this Set
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Bonanza Farm |
large scale farm that only grows one type of crop to make more money |
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Morrill Land Grant Act |
the government offers states land to build agricultural colleges |
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Soddy |
prairie house made of sod from thickly-rooted prairie grass |
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Homesteaders |
someone who moved west based on the homestead act |
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Cattle Drive |
is the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses |
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Longhorns |
an animal of a breed of cattle with long horns, were common in south west |
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End of the Frontier |
All land got bought all natives went to reservations and cowboy industry died |
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Cowboy’s job |
Herding cattle |
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Ghost Dance |
occurred because of desperation of spending 10 years on reservation- no hope. The dance would said to bring back buffalo and end the white man |
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Reservations |
a tract of public land set apart for a special purpose, as for the use of an Indian tribe. |
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Assimilation |
the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group |
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Homestead Act |
government gave 160 acres of free land in west if you worked the land for 5 years |
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Occupations on the Plains |
miner (silver), hearding, rail roads, farming |
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Chisolm Trail |
a trail used to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas. |
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Origins of the Cowboys |
Spanish |
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Exodusters |
was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century |
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Lifestyle of Plains Indians |
life based on movement |
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Populist Party Platform |
drew support especially from disgruntled farmers. The Populists were particularly known for advocating bimetallism |
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Bimetalism |
the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard. |
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Cross of Gold Speech |
was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, saying gold system is americas cross to bear, they need bimetal system. |
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The Grange |
a country house with farm buildings attached. |
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Farmer’s relationship with RR |
didn't like railroads, charged them alot |
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Cowboy Myths |
Cowboys not always shooting guns, not all cowboys white |
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Dawes Act |
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. |
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End of Populist Movement |
unable to get enough people to support it, and it was absorbed into the Progressive movement |
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Bryan and 1896 Election |
Bryan running as democratic/populist. Will mikinly won. Mikinly supported gold bryan wanted bimetalism |
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Causes of Farmer’s Debts |
Wheat prices fell, some crops failed, and railroad made them pay more for transportation |
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Tribes of the Great Plains |
sioux, pawnee chayenne NOT APACHI |
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Timeline of Pains Indian Wars |
1891-1890 |
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Transcontinental RR |
It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah. |
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To know |
Where was sand creek massacre, wounded knee, |
