Westward Expansion 12-16 Flashcards

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Was the federal gov getting more or less powerful?

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What was reconstruction?

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It was the time while the country was joining back together.

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What two presidents were impeached?

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Andrew Johnson

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What is a carpetbagger?

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Notherners who moved to the south for economic gain

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4
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What ended reconstruction

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The Compromise of 1877

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5
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How many slaves were freed

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4 million

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What was the case of plessy vs ferguson?

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Plessy bought a ticket for the white car of a train and then he got arrested

Supreme Court decided every thing should be separate but equal

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Brown vs. board of education

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Black little girl walks farther to the black school than the white school.

Dad gets mad and has trial, ends segregation

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What is a transcontinental railroad

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A railroad that connects oceans

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How did the railroads help the economy?

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West sent livestock and grain and lumber

East sent manufactured goods

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What was the gold fever?

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When there was a ton of gold to mine

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Lode

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Valuable minerals in layers of rock

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Bonanza

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A rich mineral deposit

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13
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Boomtown

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A town that has recently grown in population

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What was the long drive?

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When cattle were brought from the south to the north and many people joined in, when lots of people did it prices were lowered so many people stopped. Barbed wire was one of the things that stopped many people.

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15
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What are vigilante groups

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They were people who took the laws into their own hands.

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Three famous outlaws

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John wesley hardin

Billy the kid

Jesse James

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Three ways the native Americans used buffalo

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Meat ate it
Hides clothing and teepees
Bones and horns tools and weapons

18
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Who brought first horses

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1500s spanyards

19
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Treating of fort laramie

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Americans and Native Americans

Set boundaries for tribes

20
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Sand creek massacre

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Disagreement is going on

Troops fired on Cheyanne 200 dead

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2nd treaty of fort laramie

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A treaty to stop fighting after the Sand Creek massacre

Gave land to the Native Americans in the black hills sd

22
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Who was sitting bull

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A Soix war chief and spiritual leader

Fought US troops
Out spoken critic of the US government

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Geronimo

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Chief

For 25 years he is trying not to get captured

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For god and country Geronimo Geronimo Geronimo
Navy seal said it after he killed osama bin laden Geronimo was code name for mission
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Long walk
A walk the navajos had to take to get to a new reservation 300 miles
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How many buffalo before and after
60,000,000 200,000 now
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Little big horn
Custer and all his men were killed Custer invaded Indian territory for gold Sitting Bull killed all of them
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Dawes Act
A law that divides tribal land up.
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Wounded Knee massacre
Wavoka, a leader was leading the tribe in a ghost dance The americans thought they were preparing for war Americans killed 200 indians
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Olaf olssens goal
Own their own home
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What did the homestead act provide
160 acres of free land, had to farm it for 5 years
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Three good inventions
Steel plow- john deere Windmill Reapers
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What was the purpose of Grange?
To meet the social needs of farmers
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Munn vs Illinois
Made it so the federal government could regulate the railroads
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The great commoner
William Jennings Bryan