Frontier Flashcards

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Frontier

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Empty land awaiting settlement and civilization

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Pueblos

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Southeast native american farmers

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Territorial Rings

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Circles of local business people and ambitious politicians with access to federal money who wanted together to make a territoriall government profitable

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Californious

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The hispanic residents of california

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Rancheros

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a farmer or someone who works on a ranch mainly called this in New Mexico

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Barrios

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Mexcian American Communities

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Coolies

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Chinese indentured servants whose condition was close to slavery

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Tongs

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Chinese secret societies/gangs

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Denis Kearney

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Irish Immigrant who created the working men’s party of california

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Chines Exclusion Act

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Banned Chinese immigration into the US for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming ciitzens

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Homestead Act

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Permitted settlers to buy 160 acres of cheap land as long as they promised to live on it for 5 years and better the land

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Sodbusters

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farmers who plowed the land and cleared it of sod and used it for their homes

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Comstock Lode

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Discovered in 1858 by Henry Comstock, was full of silver

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Black Hills

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Located in Southeast Dakota territory, a lot of gold was found here

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Boomtowns

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Mining in a specific area caused towns near it to blow up with business because of the rush there

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Vigilantes

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Unofficial law enforcers for small towns/boomtowns

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“Cattle Kingdom”

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Western area was perfect for cattle ranching because it was a public domain and everyone could graze herds with unrestricted boundaries

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Chisholm Trail

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Runs from Texas to Kansas

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Range Wars

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Wars between sheepmen and cattlemen, between ranchers and farmers, erupted out of tension between groups. A lot of loss of life and property

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Rocky Mountain School

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Most notable artists are Thomas Moran and Albert Bienstadt. Refers to a group of painters that specialized in painting the great plains, rocky mountains, sierra nevada, and rockies, and cascade range, and other landscapes of teh west.

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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A historian from the university of wisconsin who stimulated ideas of individualism, nationalism, and democracy through his ideas in “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

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Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The white management of Indian matters

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Sand Creek Massacre

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a massacre led by JM Chivington that killed 133 people

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Red Cloud

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A chief who helped stop the american troops from building roads on the Bozeman Trail

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Indian Hunting

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A tracking down and hunting of Native Americans for sport by americans

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Crazy Horse

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One of the Native American leaders int he battle of little bighorn

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Sitting Bull

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The second Indian leader in the battle of little bighorn

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George Custer

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Colonel of the seventh cavalry and glory seeker, fought at battle of little bighord

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Battle of Little Bighorn

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A battle in the Montana where Native American warriors surrounded custard and his men, killing 264 members

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Chief Joseph

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Leaders of the drunk native americans who killed 4 white settlers

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Mangas Colorados

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a fierce leader of the chiricachua apaches, was murdered after surrendering

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Geronimo

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successor to mangas colorados, fought against the americans for decades

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Ghost Dance

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a dance that supposedly invoked visions and was believed by many to be genuinely mystic

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Wounded Knee

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when the seventh cavalry surrounded and killed starving sioux

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Dawes Severalty Act

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Congress abolished the practice by which tribes owned reservation lands communally

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Assimilation

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the act of westernizing indians

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Hamlin Garland

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Wrote about the problems of farmers out west in his novel “Jason Edwards”

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Buffalo Bill

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Head of a wild west show that was popular all over US

39
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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Wrote “A Century of Dishonor” which led to the passage of the Dawes Act