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Chapter 17 Flashcards

1
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Self appointed law keeper

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Vigilante

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2
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Grants of land or money

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Subsides

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3
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A railroad line that spanned the continent and connected the west coast and the east coast

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Transcontinental railroad

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4
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Rich streaks of ore sandwiched between layers of rocks

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Lode

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5
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1858, found near Sierra Nevada

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Comstock Lode

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6
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Town tags sprang up quickly because gold was found

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Boomtowns

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7
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When the gold was gone the boomtowns people deserted the town

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Ghost towns

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8
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From Sweden, designed blue jeans from miners, sturdy pants, he made a fortune, not in gold but in jeans

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Levi Strauss

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9
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Began in Omaha Nebraska and went westward

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Union Pacific

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10
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Began in Sacramento California and went eastward

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Central Pacific

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11
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Where it connected in Utah

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Promontory Point

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12
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Governor of California he laid the last trail

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Leland Stanford

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13
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Small sleds

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Travois

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14
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Cone shaped tents made of Buffalo skin

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Tepees

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15
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Tracks of land set aside for Indians

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Reservations

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16
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Forced off his land in 1876 by Government Lakota chief

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Sitting Bull

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17
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In 1851 when us government tells Indians that the land they give them is there’s forever

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For Laramie Treaty

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18
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Led his troop to Little Big horn valley

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Col. Cluster

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19
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Surrendered at the Indian war was a Nez Prez

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Chief Jospeh

20
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Chief of the Apaches

21
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“A country of Dishonor” which was about the atrocities of the American way of dealing with the Indians

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Helen Hunt Jackson

22
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In 1887 Indians must be Americanized, they had to become citizens they were forced to live an alien life and they weren’t farmers but they were hunters

23
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A religious ceremony and they prayed to the great spirit Novocain to bring Buffalo Back

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Ghost dance

24
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No fences around the ranches

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Open range

25
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The herding and moving of the cattle over long distance

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Cattle drive

26
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Spanish word for choosy or cowhand

27
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Settlements at the end of the cattle trail

28
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The region dominated by cattle industry and its ranches trails and cowtowns

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Cattle kingdom

29
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Wild cattle they roamed in the wild and they were brought over by the Spanish and Mexicans

30
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What the ranchers did to the animals hide into their symbol

31
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Trail from central Texas to Abilene Kansa

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Chisholm Trail

32
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Invented barbed wire in 1874 to coral cattles

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Jospeh Glidden

33
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Settlers who acquired free land from the Governemnt

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Homesteader

34
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A surface layer of earth in which the roots of grasses tangle with soil

35
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Plain farmers

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Sodbusters

36
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Already sneaked into the land

37
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Groups of farmers who met for lectures, seeing bees, and other events

38
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Groups of farmers who pooled their money together to by seeds, tools, and other products

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Farm cooperatives

39
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General rose in price

40
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A dem. From Nebraska known as the great commoner he was also a great orator

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Willam Jennings Bryan

41
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Names given to thousands of African Americans who moved out west

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Exodusters

42
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People who moved out towards the end of the 1860’s

43
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Party for farmers

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Populist Party

44
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Kept McKinley secluded in his home of Canton, Ohio and only delivered short speeches with preordained questions

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Marcus Hanna

45
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Was not a great orator

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