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When was gold discovered in California?

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late 1840s

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where was gold discovered in 1858?

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Pike’s Peak CO

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How long did it normally take before the Fifty Niners took all the gold?

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a month or two

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What is the Comstock Lode?

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Nevada
1859
Large amount of gold and silver worth more that $340 million was found there

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Where were the smaller lucky strikes for gold?

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MO
ID
other western states

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What type of government seemed to rule in gold towns and what resulted?

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Anarchy

Ghost towns

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What happened after all the surface gold was found?

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ore breaking machinery was brought in to break the gold bearing guartz (very expensive to do)

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What was the first state to allow women suffrage and when?

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WY 1869

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What other states allowed for women suffrage and when?

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UT 1870
CO 1893
ID 1896

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10
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What did mining also add to American arts?

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folklore and American literature (Bret Harte and Mark Twain)

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As cities back east boomed in the later half of the 19 centurary, what demand increased sharply?

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food and meat

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The problem of marketing meat profitably to public markets and cities were solved by what?

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new transcontiental rr

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What was cattle being shipped under to the stockyards?

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beef barons like Swifts or Armours

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What industry sprang up?

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meat packaging

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What is the Long Drive?

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emerged to become a feeder of the slaughterhouses

Texas cowboys herded cattle across desolate land to railorad termals in KS

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16
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What were famous cattle stopovers?

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Dodge City
Abilene
Ogallala
Cheyenne

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Who was the Marsall for Dodge City who helped to maintain order?

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Wyatt Earp

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Who was the Marshal for Abilene?

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James B Hickok

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What did RRs do to the cattle hearding buisness?

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made it prosper then destroyed it

brought sheepherders and homesteaders

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Who invented the barbed wire fence and why?

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Samuel Glidden

erased the open range days of the long cattle week

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When was the blizzard that left cattle starving and freezing?

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1886-1887

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What was the first organization of cattle breeders?

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Wyoming Stock Growers Association

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What was the Homestead Act?

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1862
free 160 acres in the west for:
living on it 5 years
improvement
paying a $30 registration fee

It allowed folks to get land after only 6 months residence for $1.25 an acre

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What did the government do before the Homestead Act?

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sold land for revenue

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25
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How many families went to live in the west

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500.000

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Why was the Homestead Act considered a hoax?

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dry Great Plains, 160 acres was rarely enough for a family to earn a living and survive
families were often forced to give up their land early due to droughts, bad land, and lack of necessities

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27
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How many times did land end up in the hands of land grabbing promoters than in real farmers?

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almost 10x

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How would people cheat into keep the but not live on it?

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They would say they had a 12x14, but it turned out to be 12x14 inches

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29
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What did RRs such as the Northern Pacific help develop?

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agriculture west, where it proved to be fertile

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Due to higher wheat prices resulting from crop failures around the world, where were people pushed to?

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Behind the 100th meridian (magic 20in rainfll where it was difficult to gow crops)

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Who was a geologist that warned successful farming could onlybe attained by massive irrigation?

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John Wesley Powell

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To couteract the lack of water due to a 6 year drought in 1880s, what technique did farmers develop?

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dry farming or using shallow cultivation methods to plant and farm (over time it created a pulverized surface that contributed to the dust bowl)

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What saved wheat in the US and grew all over the Great Plains?

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Russian species of wheat that was tough and resistant to drought
Other plants were chosen in favor of corn too

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Huge fereally financed irrigation projects caused what and what resolved it?

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Great American Desert

dams tamed the Missouri ad Columbia Rivers helped water the land

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Where experienced a population surge as many people moved to the frontier?

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Great West

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36
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What states were mitted to the Union?

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CO
ND
SD
MO
WA
ID
WY
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37
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When was Utah allowed into the Union?

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1896

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38
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By the 20th century, what remained territories?

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OK
NM
AZ

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39
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What happened when OK was made available by the US gaovernment to give away former NA land?

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thousands of sooners jumped the boundary line and illegally went into OK, often forcing US troops to evict them

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When was OK legally opened?

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April 22, 1889

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41
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When did OK becoe the Sooner State?

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1907

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42
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What happened for the first time in 1890 by the US census?

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They announced that a frontier was no longer discernible

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43
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The closing of the frontier inspired what?

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Turner Thesis?

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44
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What is the Turer THesis?

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America needed a frontier

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45
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What was the first national park and why was it opened?

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Yellowstone 1872

People finally realized tht land was not infinite and they were concerned about not having a frontier

46
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What 2 other national parks followed?

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Yosemite
Sequoia
1890

47
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What was the frontier?

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state of mind and a symbol of opportunity

48
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What is the safety valve theory?

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frontier was like a safety valve for folks who, when it became too crowded in their area, could simply pack up and leave, moving west

49
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Why did only a few city dwellers move to the west?

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didnt know how to farm

west increasingly became less and less of oppurtunity for farms but was still good for hard laborers and ranchers

50
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Who was lured into the west for free acrage?

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immigrant farmers

led to city employers raisign wages to keep workers in the cities

51
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What cities did busted farmers and fortune seekers call home?

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Chicago

San Fransico

52
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Why is the trans-Mississippi west important?

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Indians made their last stand
Anglo culture collided with Hispanic culture
America faced Asia

53
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Why were farmers increasingly producing single cash crpps?

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they could concentrte on their efforts
make profit
buy manufactured goods from mail in order companies

54
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What are some examples of mail in order companies?

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Sears

Aaron Montgomery Ward 1872

55
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What were some new farming inventions and how did they impact the farming community?

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steam engine that coul pull a plow
seeder
harrow
twine blinder
combined reaper threshing sped up harvesting and lowered the number of people needed to farm
56
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Who did farmers blame for their losses rather than their own shortcomings?

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banks and railroads

57
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What did the mechanizaiton of agriculture lead to?

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enormous farms

ex: Minnesota-ND and Central Valley of CA

58
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Who described CA as a country of plantations and estates?

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Henry Geoge

59
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What was grown in CA?

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vegetables and fruits by ill paid Mexican workers who made huge profits when sold to the east

60
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In the 1880s, when world markets rebounded, produced more crops, and forced proces down, what happened to American farmers?

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ruined

61
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What was difficult in the deflation filled time during which there was simply ot enough money to go around to everyone?

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Paying back debts

62
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What is contraction?

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less money in circulation

63
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What was the fall of farmers in the late 1800s simular to?

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King Cotton during the Civil War

64
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What events made the late 1880s and early 1890s disasterous to farmers?

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droughts
grasshopper plagued
searing heat

65
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How did the city, state, and federal government added to the failure of farmers?

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ridding them off by making them pay painful taxes when they could least afford it

66
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What items contributed to the failure of farmers?

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railroads (fixing freight prices)
middleman (taking huge cuts in profit)
various harvester
barbed fense
fertilizer trusts
67
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What percent of the US pop was farmers even though they were disorganized in 1890?

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50%

68
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Western Indians offered strong resistance to white exansion through their effective use off…

A

Repeating rifles and horses

69
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Intertribal warfare among Plains Indians increased in the late 19th century…

A

growing competition for the rapidaly dwindling hunting grounds

70
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The federal government’s attempt to confine Indians to certain areas through formal treaties was largely ineffective…

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the nomatic Plains Indians larely rejected the idea of formal authority and defined territory

71
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The warfare that led up to the Battle of Little Horn was set off by…

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White intrusions after the discovery of gold in the sacred Black Hills

72
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Indian reistance was finally subdued because…

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the coming of the railroad led to the destruction of the buffalo and the Indians way of life

73
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The federal government attempted to force Indiands away from their traditionl values and customs by…

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Creating a network of children’s boarding schools and white field matrons

74
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Both the mining and cattle frontiers saw…

A

a movement from induvidual operations to large scale corporate businesses

75
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The problem of developing agriculture in the arid West was solved most successfully through…

A

the use of irrigation from dammed western rivers

76
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THe safety valve theory of the frontier holds that…

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Unemployed city dwellers could move west and thus relieve lobor conflict in the east

77
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What were 3 factors that made the trans MIssissippi west a unique part of the America frontier experience?

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Large # of Indians, Hispanics, Asian American in the region
The scale and severity of enviormental challenges in the arid climate
The large role of the fedral government in economy and social development

78
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By the 1880s, most western farmers faced hard times ebcause…

A

They were forced to sell grain at low prices in a depressed world market

79
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What was among the political goals advocated by the Populist prty?

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nationalizing the rr, telegraph, and telephone
Graduated income tax
Free and unlimited coinage of silver money

80
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The US governemnt’s response to the Pullmen strike aroused great anger from organizatied labor because…

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it semed to represent government by injunction designed to destroy labor unions

81
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William Jennings Bryan gained the democratic nomination in 1896 because he strongly advocated…

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unlimitd coinage of silver in order to inflate currency

82
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McKinley defeated Bryan primarily because he was able to win the support of…

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eastern wage earners and city dwellers

83
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What was the major northern plains indian nation that fought and eventually lost a bitter war against the US army 1876-77

A

Sioux

84
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Southwestern Indian tribe led by Geronimo that carried out some of the last fighting against white conquest

A

Apaches

85
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Generlly poor areas where vanquished Indiansa were eventualy confined under federal control

A

Reservations

86
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Indian religious movement, originating out of the sacred Sun Dance that the federal goernment attemepted to stamp out in 1890

A

Ghost Dance

87
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Federl law that atttemepted to dissolve tribal ladholding and establish Indians as individual farmers

A

Dawes Severalty Act

88
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Huge silver and gold deposit that brought wealth and statehood of NV

A

Comstock Lode

89
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General term for the herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the rr terminals of KS, NB, WY

A

Long Drive

90
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Federl law that offered generous lad opportunities to poorer farmers but also provided the unscrupulous with opportunities for hoaxes and fraud

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Homestead Act

91
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Improved type of fencing that enabled farmers to enclose land on the treeless plains

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Barbed Wire

92
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Former Indian Territory where sooners tried to get the jump on boomers when it was opened for settlement in 1889

A

Oklahoma

93
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Third political party tha emerged in the 1890s to express rural grievances and mount mahor attacts on the democarats and republicans

A

Populist

94
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Popular pamphlet written by William Hope Harvey that portrayed pro silver arguments trumphing over the traditional views of bankers ad economics professors

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Coin FInancial School

95
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Bitter labor conflict in Chicago that brought federal intervention and the jailing of union leader Eugene V Debs

A

Pullman Strike

96
Q

Spectacular convention speech by a young pro silver advocate that brought him the democratic presidentail nomination in 1896

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cross of gold speech

97
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Popular term for those who favored the status quo in metal money and opposed the pro silver Bryanies in 1896

A

Gold Bugs

98
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What was the effect of THe encroachment of white settlement and the violaiton of treaties with indians?

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Nearly constant warfare with plains indians from 1868 to 1890

99
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What was the effect of Railroad building, disease, and the destruction fo the buffalo?

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Decimated Indian populaitons and hastened their defeat at the hands of advancing whites

100
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What was the effect of Reformers attempts to make NA conform to white ways?

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Futher undermined NA traditional tribal culture and moral

101
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What was the effect of the coming of big business mining and stock raising to the west?

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Ended the romantic, colorful, era of the miners and the cattemen’s frontier

102
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What was the effect of Dry farming, barbed wire, and irrigation?

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Made it possible to farm the dry, treeless areas of the Great Plains and the west

103
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What was the effect of The passing of the frontier of 1890?

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Created new psychological and economic problems for a naiton accustomed to a boundlessly open west

104
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What was the effect of the growing economc specialization of westward farmers?

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Made settlers vulnerable to vast industrial and market forces beyond their control

105
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What was the effect of the rise of the populist party in the early 1890s?

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Threatened the two party domination of American politics by the Republican and Democrats

106
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What was the effect of sthe economic depression that began in 1893?

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Caused widespread protests and stike like the one agianst the Pullman Company in Chicago

107
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What was the effect of the return of prosperity after 1897 and new gold discoveries in Alaska, South Africa and else where?

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Effectively ended the free silver agitation and the domination of the money question in American politics

108
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WHat is the Grange?

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founded by Oliver Kelley
improve the lives of isolated farmers through
social, educational, and fraternal activities

109
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Who led the Pullman Strike?

A

Eugene Debs

110
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What is the Gold Standard Act?

A

McKinley kigned in 1900
paper money must be bcked by gold
All silver coins were to be eliminated from circulaition

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