Us History Test #2

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Phoenix, Arizona region, very hot

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Sun Belt

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war of independence between texas and mexico

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Battle of Alamo

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purchase of southern railroad route near Mexico, blocked by Grand Canyon

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Gadsden Purchase

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Purchase of Alaska territory...big mistake...snow

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Seward's Folly

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"Go West!!!"

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Horace Greeley

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wagon of choice for movement west....also called Prairie schooner

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Conestoga Wagon

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group of people who traveled west and went south of salt lake city instead of Oregon trail...cannibalism

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Donner Party

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place where California gold rush was...

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Sutter Mill

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1st Awakening Guy

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Jonathan Edwards

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massacre of Mormons...120 die

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The Mountain Meadow Massacre

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church+state together

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theocracy

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baptize dead relatives, study family history

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genealogy

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160 acres for 1.25

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Homestead Act of 1862

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chunks of grass with dirt...stacked upon one another

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Sod Houses

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burn orderless for cooking and fuel

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Buffalo Chips

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federal govt. granted land for state colleges for agricultural deployment

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Morrill Land Grant Act

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What two cities does Transcontinental Railroad run between?

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Omaha to Sacramento

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penniless to Rich...president of railroad construction company

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Leland Stanford

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"Cow that doesnt have a brand is mine"

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Samuel Maverick

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denim jeans guy from France

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Levi Strauss

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land of the red people

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Oklahoma

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What 3 things made America free?

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God, guts, and guns.

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3 famous western hollywood cowboys

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BIlly the kid, Butch Cassidy, Wyatt Earp, or Wild Bill Hickok

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painting company that depicted glorious times/exciting times

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Currier and Ives

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What did US Census determine?

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No longer a frontier!

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"Existence of frontier defined us"

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Frederick Jackson Turner

(nationalism,democracy, and violence, and prejudice against race)

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Gold rush to Alaska to which place?

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Mt. McKinley

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government can take primitive property

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Eminent Domain

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european bad treatment of indians

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Black Legend

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spoke english, helped settlers, originally captured by europe but came back

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Squanto

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stop proliferation of Indians going to Europe

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King Phillips War

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biological warfare master (small pox blankets)

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Lord Geoffrey Amherst

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helps Lewis and Clark

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Sacajawea

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gets Midwest Indians organized, has a curse

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Tecumseh

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originally in GA, forced to flee b/c of Jackson

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Cherokee

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painter of Tail of Tears

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George Catlin

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What were borders of Great Plain Indians?

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Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River

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"every buffalo dead is another indian gone" or "The only good Indian is a dead indian"

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Philip Sheridan

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volunteer horse fighters led by John Chivington in this massacre in Colorado

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Sand Creek Massacre

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treaty that recognizes territories to Indians, Sioux Reservation in black hills, SD

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Ft. Laramie Treaty

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leader of calvary sent to protect prospectors in Black Hills

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George Armstrong Custer

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leader of Little Big Horn

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Crazy Horse

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painter of Custer's last stand

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August Bush

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world centers around us

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Ethnocentrism

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wrote "Century of Dishonor"

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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separate from any tribe, but in US territory can be citizen

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Dawes Act

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cleanse Native Americans

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Ivory Soap

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machine gun

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Gatling Gun

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practice religion the dead indians and buffalo will return and flood will kill white people

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Ghost Dance Religion

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Leader of Ghost Dance Religion

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Wovoka

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where Sitting Bull is killed

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Wounded Knee Reservation

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become apart of a group

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assimilation

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most famous Indian school

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Carlisle Indian School

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famous Indian athlete

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Jim Thorpe

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born in US=Citizen

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Citizenship of 1924

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middle of great depression...attempt to preserve tribes

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Indian Reorganization Act

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speak language not written during WWII

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Navajo Code Talkers

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fool, stupid

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Tanto

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author of Bury My Heart

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Dee Brown

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gave land in Maine to Indians by Jimmy Carter

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Nonintercourse Act

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indians claim it

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Alcatraz