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64 Cards in this Set
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This historian will characterize the colonization of the Great West in American History by stating: The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Name the four territories left to be carved into states in 1890.
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Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma ("Indian Territory")
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Which European country introduced the horse to the Native Americans?
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Spain
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How did the introduction of the horse change Native American life?
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Got them nomads and deadly hunters
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This painter will journey west first at the age of nineteen as a cowboy and ranch cook, but became the foremost artist of the vanishing way of life of the old Far West.
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Frederic Remington
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This treaty will mark the beginning of the reservation system in the West.
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Fort Laramie & Atkinson
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What did the White treaty makers misunderstand about both Indian government and Indian society?
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Recognized families or elders as leaders not Chiefs (culture was alien)
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What American Indian Nation will be moved into a smaller "reservation" in the Dakota and Oklahoma Territories in the 1860s.
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Sioux
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Why did many Indians surrender their ancestral lands in the 1860s?
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Promised to be left alone
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What did the Indians received from the federal government in return for their ancestral lands?
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Elective provisions
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What took place at Sand Creek, Colorado in 1864 (Remember: Civil War still going on)?
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Massacre of 400 Indians
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What happened to William J. Fetterman and his men when they were confronted by a Sioux war party in 1866 who was trying to block construction of the Bozeman Trail to the Montana goldfields?
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Annihilation of Fetterman's soldiers
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What great Indian battle did the Fetterman massacre lead to? Where did the battle take place?
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Battle of Little Bighorn; Montana
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What two famous characters will meet in this battle?
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George Custer & Sitting Bull
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Why were the Indians victorious?
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Two supporting columns failed to come to soldiers' rescue
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In what year did this battle take place?
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1876
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What famous Indian leader will surrender in 1886 in Arizona after a relentless chase?
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Geronimo
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This famous Indian battle will be the last in the Indian Wars which lasted from 1860s - 1890s.
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Wounded Knee
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Besides in battle how were the Native Americans defeated on the Plains?
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Disease & firewater
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This author will publish A Century of Dishonor, which will chronicle the sorry record of the US governments dealing with the Native Americans.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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The Battle of Wounded Knee will be caused by the Sioux trying to revive their Ancestor in this ancient tribal dance?
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Ghost Dance
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This Act will try to remove all remnants of Native American life by trying to "civilize" the Native Americans by placing them in Government run schools and forcing them to give up all their tribal lifestyles.
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Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
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What was the name of the Phoenix Indian School located on Central and Indian School RD?
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Phoenix Indian High School
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What was the Carlisle School in Pennsylvania?
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Taught Native American kids English & white values and customs
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What New Deal program will try and restore land and tribal ways to the Indians in 1934?
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Indian reorganization act
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How had the number of Indians had been reduced to 243,000 in 1887 (3Bs)?
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Bullets, bottles, bacteria
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What did the "fifty-niners" find?
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Gold & silver
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Where was the greatest Silver and mine found in 1859—primarily silver? What was its name?
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Nevada; Comstock Lode
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This famous trail started in Texas and would lead cattle to Abilene, Kansas to be taken to North Eastern slaughter facilities.
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The Chrisholm Trail
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What transportation device both helped the Long Drives and doomed it in the same breath? How?
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Railroad; It ran both ways
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What factors led to the decline of the Long Drives?
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Winter, overexpansion, overgrazing
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How did many of the "homesteaders" hurt the development west?
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Naked fraud, land ended up in hands of land-grabbing promoters
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What consequence did dry farming have on the mid-West in the 1880s?
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Dust bowl
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This man is responsible for perfecting the barbed wire fence, solving the problem of building fences on the treeless prairies.
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Joseph F. Glidden
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What was a "Sodbuster"?
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A farm worker who plows the land
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Hoping to gain more Republican votes in the late Nineteenth Century these six states were admitted from 1889—1890.
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North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, & Montana
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This will be the last "Land Rush" by the federal government in April 1889 and sees many "sooners" illegally entered this territory before their were allowed to stake claim to land.
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Oklahoma land rush of 1889
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What was significant about the 1890 census?
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A frontier line was no longer discernible
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Where will the first US government national park be created in 1872? What was its name?
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Wyoming; Yellowstone
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Which Chicago firm was the first to create the mail order catalogue?
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Montgomery ward
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Who in 1871 described California, "not a country of farms but a country of plantations and estates?
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Henry George
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This invention in the 1880s will allow food to be transported over thousands of miles across the US?
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Railroad refrigerator car
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What were the two concerns of the farmers in the late Nineteenth Century"
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Low prices & deflated currency/ railroads
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This famous farmer movement will be created in 1867? By who?
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The Grange; Oliver N. Kelly
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How successful was this movement?
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Very successful
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What third party will be created in the 1880 and ran James Weaver as their presidential candidate?
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Greenback labor party
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What short-lived political party (1890s - early 1900s) will eventually leave an indelible mark on the United States?
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Populist
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She was known as the "Kansas Pythoness" who led this party by stating that farmers should raise "less corn and more Hell."
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
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This protest march will head towards Washington lead by "General" Jacob S. Coxey trying to ask for governmental help to the unemployed by having the Treasury issue $500 million in legal tender.
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Coxey's Army
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What famous socialist will emerge out of the Pullman Railway Strike in 1894 seen as a friend to the workingman?
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Eugene V. Debs
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How did President Cleveland solve the Pullman Railway Strike in 1894?
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Dispatch of federal troops
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What man will issue the following statement in 1897: "The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity."
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Eugene Debs
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What famous German will give rise to Socialism in the late Nineteenth Century?
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Karl Marx
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This man will make his famous "Cross of Gold" speech stating that "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." This will lead to him becoming the Democratic nominee in the 1896 presidential election.
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William Jennings Bryan
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By what famous "heaven-born ratio" did the Democratic party call for the unlimited coinage of silver to gold?
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16-1
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Why was the Republican victory in 1896 seen as such a great victory?
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Who was known as the "Boy Orator of the Platte"? Why?
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William Jennings Bryan; 6 inches deep and a six mile wide mouth like the Platte River
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This man will be responsible for the William McKinley victory in the 1896 election and later will run the Republican Party politics to victories in the early 1900s.
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Mark Hanna
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By using both silver and gold to back the American dollar what type of financial policy is this called? What is the advantage/disadvantage of this monetary policy?
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Bimetallism
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What did the Dingley Tariff Bill do to US tariffs rates?
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Raised them
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What did the Gold Standard Act of 1900 do for the US Currency?
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Paper currency redeemed freely in gold
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What will help bring the US out of the Panics of the 1890s?
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These Americans will be the last to gain their citizenship in 1924 (ironically enough)?
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Native Americans
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Place the following events in chronological order: Utah admitted to the Union, Nevada Comstock Lode discovered, A Century of Dishonor published, Sand Creek massacre, Dawes Severalty Act, Census declaring the Frontier closed, Gold Standard Act, OK admitted to the Union, Indian Reorganization Act, Battle of Little Bighorn
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Nevada Comstock Lode Discovered, Sand Creek massacre, Battle of Little Bighorn, A Century of Dishonor published, Dawes Severalty Act, Census declaring the Frontier closed, Utah admitted to the Union, Gold Standard Act, Oklahoma admitted to the Union, Indian Reorganization Act
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