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22 Cards in this Set
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What does the Dawes Severalty Act eliminate?
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tribal culture and focues on each individual becoming an American citizen
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What was significant about the Ghost Dance?
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symbolic loss of traditional NA culture
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Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
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She wrote a Century of Dishonor that called for citizenship and assimiliation but a lot faster than the Severalty Act
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What was a critical invention?
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barbed wire
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What was the first state to grant women's suffrage?
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Wyoming
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Why was the railroad so important in settling the west?
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It helped opened up opportunity for more and more people to get out west
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What was another reason besides gold for going out west?
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Silver.
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By many factors inviting people out west..what was a factor of this?
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It created a melting pot
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What things all effected how long people can settle in towns for long and what do they become when they leave?
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(Ghost Towns)
1. gold/silver availability 2. world economics 3. weather (huge factor) |
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Who were the two leading names in the environmental movement?
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John Wesley Powell and John Muir
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Were there any black cowboys?
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Yes, 1/5 of them were.
example: Deadwood Dick |
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What was the cowboy's job?
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To move large herds of cattle
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How was the frontier myth spread?
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Through the press, movies, dime novels
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What is noted about Bonanza Farms
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There were tremendous boom and bust cycles
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What was a prime example of a fronteir myth novel?
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The Virginian by Owen Wister
cowboy represents Christian knight and everything good |
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What happens to America w/ opening up west?
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every time the US opens up the West, like the Lousiana Purchase, there is renewed nationalism and higher spirits for the American dream
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What did the census of 1890 state
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That the fronteir was officially closed because there were 6 people for every square mile
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What did some say about America moving west?
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It made us exceptional becuase the further away from Europe we moved the closer to democracy and goodness we reached
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What positive attribute to equality did Western states help with?
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they helped paved way to women's rights
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Was america a world power?
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no, they won't become a world power until they win the spanish-american war but china is
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What was an interesting American view that began to change
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they stopped worrying about who we are domestically and began to view America in an international sense
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Describe the Plains Indians
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--Followed bison migration
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