Chapter 18 Social Studies
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| show | The Homestead Act, African Americans were promised a life free of discrimination, women were promised land, settle land, get rich from gold or silver and the east was becoming overpopulated.
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| show | A community whose population grew suddenly when a mine opened and closed just as quickly when the mine closed.
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| show | People who worked the mines mining for gold and silver.
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| show | Injury or death from unsafe machinery, explosions, fires, cave-ins and lung disease.
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| show | Cowhand/Cowboy led the cattle drives from the Great Plains to the railroads.
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| What problems did the cowhands face? | show 🗑
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| What was the cattle industry? | show 🗑
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| show | Spreading from Texas to Canada in the Great Plains where ranchers raised cattle.
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| show | Treaty of Fort Laramie gave Indians a reservation that was their's and no one could go on it, which would limit Indian anger and fighting with the settlers. It also allowed roads, military and other posts to be established in the Indian territories.
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| show | A parcel of land given to the Indians by the government.
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| What was Little Big Horn? | show 🗑
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| show | Massacre of unarmed Indians due to the Army's lack of understanding of the Ghost Dance.
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| What was the Dawes Act? What did it do to Indian land? | show 🗑
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| show | Wovoka created - claimed he died while chopping wood and God told him that if he did the dance that all the whites would die and the dead relatives would come back to life. Army thought it was a war dance, asked for Indian weapons to be turned over.
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| What was the Homestead Act and why was it created? | show 🗑
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| What was the role of women in the west? What affect did the role of women in the west have on their political rights? | show 🗑
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| show | Tough grass and soil, lack of building materials (wood), very hot in the west, tornados
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| What was the Grange? | show 🗑
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| show | A group of farmers that wanted to take the economy into their own hands because the government was ignoring issues related to labor & farming: govt should control telegraph & railroad, 8 hour work day and limits on immigration - farmers & laborers
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| show | The gov't gave land to settlers that was formerly Seminole Indian land. Over 50,000 settlers moved out west within a month
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| What metals were the miners mining for? | show 🗑
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| show | Coffee, beans, bacon and biscuits.
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| Where did cowhands sleep? | show 🗑
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| show | $25 and food.
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| What is open range? | show 🗑
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| What is the significance of barbed wire? | show 🗑
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| show | Unsually severe winters of 1868 and 1869 killed off thousands of cattle and effectively ended the Cattle Kingdom.
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| show | The Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
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| show | Central Pacific started in Sacramento, California and Union Pacific started in Omaha, Nebraska
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| Who was the primary workforce for each company? | show 🗑
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| What were the hazards that each company faced? | show 🗑
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| show | Promontory Point, Utah. May 10, 1869.
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| show | Shortened travel times across the county, killed alot of buffalo, caused issues with the Indians, encouraged population of the west by transporting people and goods, increased economic growth.
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| What did the white settlers believe about owning land? Making a profit? Buffalo? Structures? | show 🗑
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| What did Indians believe about owning land, profit, buffalo and structures? | show 🗑
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| What did buffalo mean to white settlers, Indians and the railroad companies? | show 🗑
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| Was the Treaty broken? By whom? | show 🗑
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| What did the US government do next? | show 🗑
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| What were the challenges of the Homestead Act? | show 🗑
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| what was dry farming? | show 🗑
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| who liked the populist party & why? | show 🗑
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| What led to the cattle boom in the west? | show 🗑
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