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SOC LAST TEST Flashcards

1
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Time period

A

(1865-1898)

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2
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“GO WEST YOUNG MAN”

A

Horace Greeley

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3
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“I will fight no more forever”

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Chief Joseph

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4
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Sweet Baby James

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James Taylor

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5
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As the Industrial Revolution “steamed” forward in America it also helped pave the way for what?

A

westward expansion.

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6
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What were the technological advancments that helped the Americans populate vast open lands
west of the Miss. River.

A

technological advances in firearms, transportation, farming and
communications

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7
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The Fed Govt. felt the need to connect the country so they embarked on what?

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the first transcontinental railroad line.

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8
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What did the Trans-con provide?

A

It provided People and supplies now had safe and fast access all over
the country.

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9
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Thousands of immigrants from Asia and Europe came and joined the effort in what.

A

the effort in
the dangerous job of building the RR tracks.

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10
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Without the immigrants what would have happend?

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our RR’s would never have been built!

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11
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New weapons developed from ______ were now used by settlers to “tame the west”

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civil war

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12
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steel plough

A

this tool was able to assist farmers in utilizing the fertile soil of
the plains and transform them into thriving farms providing food for a growing nation.

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13
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Barbed Wire

A

This simple fencing system helped ranchers domesticate the vast
herds of wild steer and horses roaming the west and revolutionize the American diet.

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14
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The telegraph

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This technological breakthrough in communications linked the
nation and allowed us to send messages in real time for the first time in history.

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15
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What act was passed in 1862 and what did it do?

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The homestead act set aside lands out west for
the American public to homestead.

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16
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Stipulation:

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Any head of family over 21 could receive 150 acres,
they must live on it for a period of 5 years then it became theirs.

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17
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What was being used for the first time and wat was going on west?

A

Steel ploughs and barbed wire were used for first time-
thousands began moving West.

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18
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What was hard frontier life like?

A

settlers hunted the buffalo to near
extinction solely for its hide and sport.

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19
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Countless settlers (sodbusters), many from Scandinavia, headed
west to start what?

A

a new life built on hard work , skill and luck.

20
Q

The plains were what and provided Americans with what?

A

The plains were fertile and provided America with an almost
endless supply of crops.

21
Q

Why did most settlers make their homes from sod?

A

Because of the lack of trees on the plains

22
Q

By 1890 what happend to all free government owned land?

A

all free government land was gone which officially
ended the frontier. AMERICA WAS SETTLED.

23
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What happened in San Francisco in 1849 that caused and thousands of would-be miners flocked west?

A

Gold and Silver was “struck” (Sutter’s
Mill)

24
Q

Strikes of gold and silver throughout the West (Colorado, Nevada
etc.) spurred the growth of what?

A

Boom towns(lawless western towns
that grew around gold strikes to service miners).

25
Q

What could not bring enough supplies and raw materials to the
growing crowds of “would-be” miners?

A

Wagons

26
Q

what happened Between 1865-1890?

A

RR expansion grew rapidly throughout the
nation.

27
Q

The Us GOV. helped pay for what?

A

for and sponsored a “contest” to
the company to build the fastest transcontinental RR (17,000
miles). The two companies finally tie the nation together at
Promontory Point Utah 1869.

28
Q

Where did the US.GOVT. pay for the RRs

A

in land which already wealthy RR
owners sold to settlers (The RR tycoon $$ was born)

29
Q

aside from adding to our growing economy what did the gold rush do?

A

spurred
westward expansion.

30
Q

What did cows need to survive?

A

need large grassland areas to graze on (not what the
majority of the original country was).

31
Q

Where was there giant herds of wild steer? When were we able to add them to the American Table?

A

in the
South West and Texas but no way to get them to the
American table until the RR was completed.

32
Q

Thousands of what went west?

A

Civil War cavalrymen

33
Q

Ranchers began doing what? Describe.

A

rounding up wild cattle, branding them and
making the “long drive” north to the RR which brought them
to Eastern markets.

34
Q

After being transported (alive)to eastern cities the cattle were what?

A

“processed” and consumed.

35
Q

Tremendous ranches of thousands of cattle became what with texas?

A

synonymous

36
Q

What industry boomed in America

A

the beef industry boomed in America

37
Q

The US Government viewed the native tribes in America as what?

A

roadblocks to modernization and growth of America.

38
Q

What were the natives to be forced onto?

A

reservation lands (mostly
unwanted lands in the West.

39
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What happened when many tribes refused to start living on reservations? And what does the US do?

A

They declared war on the US and the US army goes to war against the natives.

40
Q

What were some of the Native american wars?

A

The Cheyenne War 1864-68
* The Sioux War 1868-77
* The Nez Perce War 1877
* The Apache War 1849-1886

41
Q

The Dawes Act (1887)

A

ends reservation system and instead
gives small plots of land to natives. It’s goal was to
“Americanize” the natives and force them to give up tribal
life.

42
Q

what giant project was daunting to early 19th
cent.

A

The concept of a RR stretching from Atlantic to Pacific across
America (transcontinental railroad)

43
Q

In 1862 What did the US do with to different RR companies?

A

the US contracted 2 separate companies to start
building the rr.(each from opposite sides of the the US to meet
somewhere in the middle!)

44
Q

After 7 years of grueling and sometimes deadly work what happened in Promotory Point Utah.

A

the two
met at Promotory Point Utah whereupon a golden spike was
symbolically placed into the last section of track.

45
Q

Thousands of immigrants were used to do what?

A

Thousands of immigrants were used to do the labor, primarily
Irish and Scottish on the East Coast and Chinese on the West
coast.

46
Q

What did The Trans-Con revolutionize?

A

westward expansion in America.

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