Social Studies Vocab-ch 18
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| underground layers of ore sandwiched between rock | lode
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| a type of rock that can contain gold found underground | ore
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| citizens who take the law into their own hands | vigilante
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| boomtowns that became deserted | ghost towns
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| financial aid and land grants from the government | subsidy
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| to span or go across the continent | transcontinental
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| land not fenced or divided into lots | open range
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| a symbol | brand
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| a Hispanic ranch hand | vaquero
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| to earn ownership of land by settling on it | homestead
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| a farmer in the Plains where there is little rain | sodbuster
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| to plant seeds deep in the ground where there is moisture | dry farming
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| to settle in one place for only part of the year | nomadic
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| a tract of land set aside for Native Americans | reservation
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| the first network of local self-help organizations for farmers | National Grange
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| a political party developed to appeal to the common | Populist Party
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| a store where farmers bought products from one another | cooperative
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| the unlimited production of silver coins | free silver
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| year Civil War ended | 1865
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| reason people wanted to move out west | free land
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| reason people wanted to move out west | gold
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| reason people wanted to move out west | transcontinental railroad
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| completion of transcontinental railroad | 1864
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| where transcontinental railroad met | Promoatory Point, UT
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| the train companies of Transcontinental Railroad | Pacific Central and Union
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| Which workers did the hardest work on the Transcontinental Railroad | Chinese
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| What was the tragedy of the transcontinental railroad? | many died
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| What was the triumph of the Transcontinental Railroad? | they completed it
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| Homestead Act | 1862
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| gave 160 free acres of land to a settler who paid a filing fee and lived on the land for five years | Homestead Act
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| Challenges that the Plains farmer faced | climate, dryness of land, and grasshoppers
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| Why were the buffalo killed? | the would get in the way of trains and people shot them
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| Dawes Act | 1887
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| to eliminate Native American culture | Dawes Act
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| a Lieutenant Colonel | George Armstrong Custer
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| Custer's last stand | Battle of Little Bighorn
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| who was Sitting Bull? | Chief of Sioux
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| How did Sitting Bull die? | in a scuffle
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| he said, "I will fight no more forever" | Chief Joseph
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| what did Chief Joseph say to Congress | I want peace and all men are equal
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| when was the armed conflict between the Native Americans and the US Army? | 1890
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| what was the conflict between the Native Americans and the US Army called? | Battle of Wounded Knee
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| Why couldn't Native Americans and settlers live together? | Americans through they were savage
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| Why couldn't Native Americans and settlers live together? | did not want to compromise
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| Why couldn't Native Americans and settlers live together? | uncivilized
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