Chapter 17 Flashcards

0
Q

Crazy horse and sitting bull lead the _______ or Lakota at Little Bighorn

A

Sioux

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1
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Laborers from ______ and Ireland played a key role in building the railroads out west

A

China

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2
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Bryan

A

Populist candidate for the Democratic Party in 1896

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3
Q

Dawes act

A

tried to convert native Americans into farmer

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4
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Sioux spiritual dance that the US army thought was a prelude to war

A

Ghost dance

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5
Q

Settlers used buffalo ____ for heating and fertilizer

A

Manure

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6
Q

The political party of the people

A

Populists

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7
Q

Farmers believed that higher prices would allow them to pay off there _____ more easily

A

Dept

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8
Q

Buffalo Bill Cody

A

Created the cowboy mith with his Wild West show

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9
Q

Sodbusters

A

Farmers who broke ground on the plains

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10
Q

Untended land in Texas where cattle roamed

A

Open range

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11
Q

Little big horn

A

Where Custer and the seventh cavalry were defeated

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12
Q

200 Sioux including women and children were killed at

A

Wounded née

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13
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Subsidies

A

Grants of money or land give. By the government to encourage growth

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14
Q

Silver lode discovered in Nevada in 1859

A

Com stock

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15
Q

Cheif Joseph

A

Cheif of the nez perce who tried to lead his people to canada

16
Q

Homestead act

A

Offered 160 acres of land for 10 dollars

17
Q

Rise in prices

A

Inflation

18
Q

Vigilante

A

One who takes law into their own hands

19
Q

Spanning from coast to coast

A

Transcontinental

20
Q

Geronimo and the apaches

A

Attacked settlers in Arizona and New Mexico

21
Q

A golden spike was driven in this Utah city when the railroads were connected

A

Promontory

22
Q

Blacks who headed west to what they hoped would be would be promise land

A

Exodusters

23
Q

Reservation

A

Land set aside for native Americans go live on

24
Q

Too much grain led ______ to prices!hurting farmers income

A

Lower

25
Q

Cooperatives

A

Pooled framers resources together to buy cheaper supplies

26
Q

Cities that developed at the end of cattle trails

A

Cow towns

27
Q

Helped organize framers socially and politically

A

Grange

28
Q

Coned shaped tent made of buffalo skin

A

Teepee

29
Q

Sooners

A

Moved into Oklahoma before they were supposed to

30
Q

Towns that sprung uo in mining areas

A

Boomtowns