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20 Cards in this Set
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William Cody
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Known as Buffalo Bill
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Free Silver
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The unlimited production of silver coins
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Long Drive
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The sudden increase in the longhorns' value
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Homestead Act
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In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act which gave 160 acres of land to a settler who paid a filling fee and lived on the land for five years
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Dawes Act
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African American soldiers in segregated units
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Boomtowns
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Towns that grew up almost overnight
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The National Grange
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The first farmers' organization of this period that offered farmers education, fellowship, and support
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Buffalo Soldiers
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When Congress set up the peacetime after the Civil War, it also organized four segregate regiment of African American soldiers
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Crazy Horse
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A Sioux military leader who acted as a decoy and lured the troops in a deadly trap
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Transcontinental Railway
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A railway that would span the continent and connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Construction completed in May 1869
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Why were immigrants and African Americans hired to build the transcontinental railroad?
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Because all workers toiled for low wages in harsh conditions
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Before railroads, communities across the United States what?
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Kept their own time
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Where did the traditions of the Cowhand begin?
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Vaqueros
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What ended long cattle drives?
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Barbed wire fenced off their land
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Why was the Homestead Act important to settlers?
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It provided an inexpensive way to start life
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How did Omaha differ from Sioux land?
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Omaha farmed and Sioux followed buffalo herds
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Why did some native americans accept the Americans reserve policy at first?
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Because Gov. officials made promises that they did not intend to keep
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The Battle of Little Big horn was fought when, where, and why?
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To control the black hills, against sioux, after peace treaties failed
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Farmers' Alliance leaders formed the what?
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Populist Party
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What was the major or reform of the Populists Agenda?
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Free Silver
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