Study guide for Mrs. Farris' History Final
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| show | Forty-Niners
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| show | "Placer Mining"
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| What bought the first wave of settlers tot he West? | show 🗑
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| In 1859, when prospector Henry Comstock staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada, the sticky blue-gray mud there turned out to be what? | show 🗑
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| show | Virginia City, Nevada
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| show | Barbed wire
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| What were hardships early settlers faced? | show 🗑
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| Settlement of the Great Plains was promoted by railroads and supported by the...? | show 🗑
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| In 1819, Stephen Long explored the Great Plains region and called it... | show 🗑
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| Many of the first miners in the Colorado mountains did not find minerals because... | show 🗑
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| show | was the major route North
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| At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat because.. | show 🗑
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| One approach to farming the Great Plains was "dry farming" in which farmers... | show 🗑
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| The material for "dime novels" often came from... | show 🗑
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| show | negotiate
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| The confrontation at Wounded Knee occurred because the chief's followers... | show 🗑
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| show | Nomads
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| By the early 1900s, Americans had transformed the United States into the world's leading... | show 🗑
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| show | Alexander Graham Bell
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| This railroad was honestly operated without government subsides or land grants, became the most successful, and was the only one not forced into bankruptcy. | show 🗑
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| show | Pacific Railway Act
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| This railroad began the push west in the quest to build the transcontinental railroad. | show 🗑
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| show | Fixed costs
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| What type of company does not produce anything itself? | show 🗑
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| What did several railroads announce in July of 1877 that triggered the first nationwide labor protest? | show 🗑
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| The first leader of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, believed that unions should stay out of... | show 🗑
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| Workers who tried to organize a union or strike were often fired and placed on a list of "troublemakers" called the... | show 🗑
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| show | Carl Marx
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| show | create gas
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| show | China
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| show | land grants
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| The two railroads that built the transcontinental railroad were... | show 🗑
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| To make rail service more reliable, in 1883 the American Railway Association... | show 🗑
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| In the Credit Mobilier scandal, Union Pacific investors for rich by... | show 🗑
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| show | lockout
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| He is remembered for the creation of the first transatlantic cable. | show 🗑
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| Nativism had focused primarily on Irish immigrants but grew to include Asians, Jews, and... | show 🗑
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| show | cities
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| show | California
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| What law, passed in 1882, barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens? | show 🗑
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| The processing center for the cast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast was at... | show 🗑
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| What was the famous New York Democratic political machine called? | show 🗑
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| American's industrialization not only made some people wealthy; it also helped create a growing... | show 🗑
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| show | a famous party boss
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| Nativists wanted to... | show 🗑
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| The ideas of philosopher Herbert Spencer and others applied Charles Darwin's Theory of evolution and natural selection to human society and was called... | show 🗑
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| show | Philanthropy
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| Just as Darwin had looked at the natural world scientifically, a new movement in art and literature moved away from romanticism and was called... | show 🗑
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| Popular culture changed in the late 1800s because industrialization improved that standard of living for many people, enabling them to spend money on... | show 🗑
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