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  1. Californios
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Mexican elites who occupied California when the U.S. Acquired it from Mexico

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  1. Plains Indians
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Indians who inhabited the Great Plains region of the United States

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  1. Coolies
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Chinese immigrants who worked on the transcontinental railroad

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  1. Chinatown
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A town occupied by Chinese immigrants that helped to get them jobs and act as a home away from home

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5.Anti-coolie clubs

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Clubs that tried to stop Chinese immigration and would do so by boycotting goods

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  1. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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The act was used to help lessen the flow of Chinese immigrants into the U.S.

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  1. Homestead Act of 1862
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Helped to settle the west allowed land to be bought for a cheap price as long as it was maintained for 5 years and had a 12•12 structure on it

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  1. Comstock Lode
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The first major discovery of Silver Ore in the United States

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  1. Black Hills Gold Strike
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Began in 1874 after someone found gold in the black hill

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  1. Anaconda Copper Mine
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Located in Butte Montana, marked the beginning of an industry in Montana

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  1. “Boomtown”
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Towns located near places where gold was struck and often had an uneven amount of men to women

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  1. The Cattle Kingdom
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The overtaking of ranching that showed people that there was a lot of money to be made in it

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  1. Vaquero
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A Mexican cowboy

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  1. Cowboys
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A man who tends cattle for a job

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  1. Chisholm trail
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A trail used to transport cattle from Texas to Kansas railheads

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  1. Range wars
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Wars between farmers and ranchers over land

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  1. Rocky Mountain School
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A school for artists and focused on impression

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  1. Mark Twain, roughing it
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Describes what It’s like to spend the night in a stagecoach station and his journey across the United States

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  1. Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Talks about life of children the South in post civil war era

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  1. Frederic Remington
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A painter who painted realist western scenes

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  1. Frederick Jackson Turners
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Made a thesis stating that the west was still available to settle

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  1. Wild West Shows
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Shows that romanised the west and included things like shoot outs

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  1. Buffalo Bill
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Created Wild West shows for people to come and see

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  1. Annie Oakley
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A performer in Buffalo Bills Wild West Shows

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  1. Concentration policy
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Gave tribes of plains Indians parcels of land to live on

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  1. Reservations
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Lands out in the west where Indians were placed so the United States could take their previously assigned lands

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  1. Indian Wars
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Wars between the United States and the Native American over land

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  1. Sand creek Massacre
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Indians gathered at army lines for protection and were then attacked my drunken soldiers

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  1. Battle of Little Bighorn
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The Sioux Indians rebelled against the governments efforts to take their lands and the government Calvary then was massacred

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  1. Indian Hunting
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To bring an Indian dead before the government was to receive a monetary prize

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  1. Crazy Horse
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1840 – September 5, 1877 was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota.

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  1. Sitting Bull
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a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies.

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  1. Chief Joseph
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To avoid war, and save his people Chief Joseph tried retreating to Canada with his people. They were cornered

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  1. Cochise
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Tried to resist white settlement on his lands in Arizona

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  1. Geronimo
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Resisted white settlements on his lands in Arizona and led raids on white settlers

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  1. Ghost Dance Religion
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An Indian religion that

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  1. Massacre of wounded knee
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a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry’s opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow soldiers.

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  1. Dawes Act
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authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians

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  1. Indian Boarding school
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Used to try and assimilate Indians into the American culture

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  1. Barbed Wire
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Helped solve disputes between farmers and ranchers and made settlement possible

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