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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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show Nearly pure silver ore  
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Deep deposits of lead that contained large amounts of silver led to the creation of one of the most legendary boomtowns that dotted the mining frontier.   show
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Eventually, and after considerable loss of life, the open range was largely fenced off with a new invention called what?   show
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show prices of crops dropped from overabundance, drought.  
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show Homestead Act and the government  
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show "The Great American Desert"  
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show they were hidden beneath the surface and hard to extract  
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The Chisholm Trail was a trail that...   show
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show it abandoned open range to prevent cattle from roaming  
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One approach to farming the Great Plains was "dry farming" in which farmers...   show
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show cowboys stories as long drivers.  
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Before the Sand Creek Massacre, the Native Americans had come to Camp Lyon to..   show
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The confrontation at Wounded Knee occurred because the chief's followers...   show
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Roaming cast distances, the Sioux and the Dakota were...   show
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show Industrial nation  
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show Alexander Graham Bell  
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show The Great Northern Railroad  
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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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show Holding Company  
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show wage cuts  
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show Politics  
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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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Because of the shortage of workers in California, the Central Pacific Railroad hired workers from...   show
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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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This was a technique used for breaking a union in which the company refused to allow the workers on the property and refused to pay them.   show
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He is remembered for the creation of the first transatlantic cable.   show
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show Eastern Europeans  
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By the 1890s, immigrants made up significant percentages of some of the country's largest...   show
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Where did many Chinese settle?   show
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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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William M. Tweed was...   show
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Nativists wanted to...   show
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show Social Darwinism  
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show Philanthropy  
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show Realism  
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show entertainment and recreation  
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