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Western Expansion Review Flashcards

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19th Century Cities

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Overcrowded, gross, diseases

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Cholera

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Ingesting contaminated water as it came from wells.

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Where did people live in the 19th century

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Downtown or Old Louisville

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Immigration

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Into a country

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Emigration

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Exit a country

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Reasons for going west

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Get out of the city and gold.

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Immigration Push Factors

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War, lack of jobs, gross cities, religion, government, famine

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Immigration Pull Factors

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“UTOPIA”, democracy, freedom of religion, jobs, free land.

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Steerage

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Bottom of the boat. 5 day trip

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Problems at the Steerage

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Stored animals, sea sickness.

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Gold Towns

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Sac CA, Helene MT, Boise ID, Denver CO

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Ellis Island

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Processed immigrants, if you were ill you were sent home alone. In New York City

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Cattle Towns

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Lawless- prostitution, drinking, gambling

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8 “cattle towns”

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Dallas TX, Dodge City KA, Abilene KS, Kansas City KS, Brookville KA, Newton KS, Cheyenne WY, Miles City MT

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Angel Island

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Processed immigrants o the west coast, San Francisco.

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Melting Pot

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Mix of cultures coming together- American

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Bloody Monday- Louisville

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Nativism caused Americans to burn down immigrant houses, mainly Irish, and then were shot when escaping the fire. They ran to the Cathedral of Assumption. Thousands left Louisville. On Election Day due to the drinking.

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Two company’s went together and connection train tracks from Omaha to Sac California in Promitary Utah with the Gold Spike, taking 6 years, 6 day travel. Build by Chinese people, many of which died. They had to deal with mountains.

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Nativism

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When Natives of the area are upset when immigrants move in. Privileged.

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Promontory Point, Utah

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Where the two trains connected

21
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How was Cholera solved

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Purification, comes from the Ohio River, and because of indoor plumbing

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Donner Party

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A wagon train got stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountains during winter for months, and resorted to cannibalism.

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Sooners

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People who started the race early.

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Homestead Act

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Free 160 acres of land per family if you live there for 5 years and have to build a home. Given through a land race/ lottery.

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Well known Gunslingers in the 19th century

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Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Belle Star, Butch Cassidy, Cole Younger

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Vigilante

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Someone who takes the law into their own hand.

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Cattle Rustlers

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People who stole cows. If you stole someone’s cow you were shot/hanged.

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Assimilation

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Got rid of culture, “Americanize” native Americans, created boarding schools for kids 5-18 teaching Christianity, cut men’s hair.

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Native Americans views of land

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Spiritual- believed in reincarnation the highest of which being an eagle. Didn’t understand.

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Closest Reservation to Louisville

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Cherokee in North Carolina

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Gold

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First discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains CA. Cities began to form

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Wagon Train

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Carried groups of families heading west

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Concerns of Traveling West

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Native American attacks, weather, getting over water (river crossing), illness, theives.

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Barbed Wire

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Put around newly gotten land. 10 years of fighting because of free roaming cows.

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Largest wagon Builder in Louisville

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Kentucky Wagon Company

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Ranchers

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Walk cows to Dallas, 100 miles from west Texas, 3 weeks to a month.

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Native Americans

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Didn’t have a written language. Kentucky was a hunting area.

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