Chapter 17 Flashcards

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

A

Sioux

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

A

China

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Bryan

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Populist candidate for the Democratic Party in 1896

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Dawes act

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tried to convert native Americans into farmer

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

A

Ghost dance

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Settlers used buffalo ____ for heating and fertilizer

A

Manure

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The political party of the people

A

Populists

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

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Dept

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Buffalo Bill Cody

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Created the cowboy mith with his Wild West show

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Sodbusters

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Farmers who broke ground on the plains

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Untended land in Texas where cattle roamed

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Open range

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Little big horn

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Where Custer and the seventh cavalry were defeated

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200 Sioux including women and children were killed at

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Wounded née

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13
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Subsidies

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

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14
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Silver lode discovered in Nevada in 1859

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Com stock

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15
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Cheif Joseph

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

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Homestead act

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Offered 160 acres of land for 10 dollars

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Rise in prices

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Vigilante

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One who takes law into their own hands

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Spanning from coast to coast

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Transcontinental

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Geronimo and the apaches

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Attacked settlers in Arizona and New Mexico

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

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

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Reservation

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Land set aside for native Americans go live on

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Too much grain led ______ to prices!hurting farmers income
Lower
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Cooperatives
Pooled framers resources together to buy cheaper supplies
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Cities that developed at the end of cattle trails
Cow towns
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Helped organize framers socially and politically
Grange
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Coned shaped tent made of buffalo skin
Teepee
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Sooners
Moved into Oklahoma before they were supposed to
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Towns that sprung uo in mining areas
Boomtowns