Chapter 5 & 6 Test Flashcards

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What were your ambushed Captain William J Fetterman?

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Crazy horse

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What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie

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The Indians agreed to live on the reservation along the Missouri River

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What law was passed to make the Indians live on the reservations along the Missouri River

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Treaty of Fort Laramie

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What is assimilation

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A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life to become part of the white culture

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What is the Dawes act

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They broke up the reservations and get some of the reservation land to the individual and Native Americans

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What was the battle of wounded knee

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It brought the Indian wars and the entire area to a bitter end

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What happened to the Native Americans when the Buffalo disappeared

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A force them into smaller and less desirable reservations, where is entitled florist on the lens.

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What are Longhorns

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Mexican animals that were sturdy short tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern Spain

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After what war did the cities start growing rapidly

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Civil War

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What was the Homestead act

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It offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who is head of the household

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Exodusters

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African-Americans who moved from the post reconstruction south to Kansas

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Who invented the steel plow; what did it do?

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John Deere; it could slice through heavy soil

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Who invented the reaping machine

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Cyrus McCormick

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What was the Morrill act

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It gave federal lands to the states to help finance agricultural colleges

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What was the Hatch act

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Establish agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new developments

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Why were the farmers in debt

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Machinery was expensive, The farmers plains experienced drought

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What was a bonanza farm

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Enormous single crop spreads of 15,000 to 50,000 acres

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What was the Bland Allison act

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It required the government to buy and coin at least $2 million-$4 million worth of silver each month

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What did Oliver Hudson Kelly do

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He started the patrons of husbandry

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What was the patrons of husbandry

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It was an organization for farmers that became popular known as the Grange

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What was the Grange

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And organization for farmers

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What was the farmers alliances

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Another green organization that included many others who sympathized with farmers

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It was populism

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The movement of the people

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What were some things at the populists proposed

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An increase in money supply, I graduated income tax, and a federal loan program

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What is bimetallism
Monetary system in which the government would give his hands either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks
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What was the gold standard
Backing dollar solely with gold
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What did William Jennings Bryan edit
The Omaha world Herald
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When did populism collapse
With McKinley's election
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Well is there an immense industrial boom after the Civil War
A wealth of natural resources, government support for business, and a growing urban population of provided both cheap labor and markets for new products
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What did Edwin L Drake do
He successfully use a steam engine to drill for oil
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What was the Bessemer process
This technique involves injecting Aaron to the mall and I are to move the carbon other impurities
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Who invented the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
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What did Christopher Shoals invent
The typewriter
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What did Alexander Graham Bell invented
The telephone
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What did industrialization do
It freed some factory workers from backbreaking labor and help improve workers standard of living
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What was the transcontinental railroad
When the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad some at promontory Utah and made one huge railroad
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What was the larssez faire
Let do or allowed to do
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What was munn vs Illinois
States had the right to regulate the railroads for the benefit of farmers
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What is monopoly
When one corporation buys out another Corporation
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George m pullman
He built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie
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Credit mobilier
Construction company which stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad formed
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Interstate commerce act
Reestablish the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities/ established an ICC
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Andrew Carnegie
Famous steel magnet in America
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Vertical interrogation
Buying out suppliers
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Horizontal interrogation
Companies producing similar products merge
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Social Darwinism
Biological evolution
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John D Rockefeller
Owner of standard oil Company
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Sherman antitrust act
Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered free trade between states or with other countries
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What are labor unions
Workers come together to make a strike
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Socialism
Equal pay, government controls everything
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What was the philosophy applied to the business world
Survival of the fittest