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61 Cards in this Set
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Phoenix, Arizona region, very hot
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Sun Belt
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war of independence between texas and mexico
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Battle of Alamo
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purchase of southern railroad route near Mexico, blocked by Grand Canyon
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Gadsden Purchase
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Purchase of Alaska territory...big mistake...snow
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Seward's Folly
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"Go West!!!"
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Horace Greeley
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wagon of choice for movement west....also called Prairie schooner
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Conestoga Wagon
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group of people who traveled west and went south of salt lake city instead of Oregon trail...cannibalism
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Donner Party
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place where California gold rush was...
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Sutter Mill
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1st Awakening Guy
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Jonathan Edwards
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massacre of Mormons...120 die
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The Mountain Meadow Massacre
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church+state together
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theocracy
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baptize dead relatives, study family history
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genealogy
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160 acres for 1.25
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Homestead Act of 1862
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chunks of grass with dirt...stacked upon one another
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Sod Houses
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burn orderless for cooking and fuel
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Buffalo Chips
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federal govt. granted land for state colleges for agricultural deployment
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Morrill Land Grant Act
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What two cities does Transcontinental Railroad run between?
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Omaha to Sacramento
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penniless to Rich...president of railroad construction company
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Leland Stanford
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"Cow that doesnt have a brand is mine"
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Samuel Maverick
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denim jeans guy from France
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Levi Strauss
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land of the red people
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Oklahoma
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What 3 things made America free?
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God, guts, and guns.
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3 famous western hollywood cowboys
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BIlly the kid, Butch Cassidy, Wyatt Earp, or Wild Bill Hickok
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painting company that depicted glorious times/exciting times
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Currier and Ives
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What did US Census determine?
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No longer a frontier!
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"Existence of frontier defined us"
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Frederick Jackson Turner
(nationalism,democracy, and violence, and prejudice against race) |
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Gold rush to Alaska to which place?
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Mt. McKinley
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government can take primitive property
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Eminent Domain
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european bad treatment of indians
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Black Legend
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spoke english, helped settlers, originally captured by europe but came back
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Squanto
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stop proliferation of Indians going to Europe
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King Phillips War
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biological warfare master (small pox blankets)
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Lord Geoffrey Amherst
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helps Lewis and Clark
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Sacajawea
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gets Midwest Indians organized, has a curse
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Tecumseh
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originally in GA, forced to flee b/c of Jackson
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Cherokee
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painter of Tail of Tears
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George Catlin
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What were borders of Great Plain Indians?
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Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River
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"every buffalo dead is another indian gone" or "The only good Indian is a dead indian"
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Philip Sheridan
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volunteer horse fighters led by John Chivington in this massacre in Colorado
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Sand Creek Massacre
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treaty that recognizes territories to Indians, Sioux Reservation in black hills, SD
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Ft. Laramie Treaty
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leader of calvary sent to protect prospectors in Black Hills
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George Armstrong Custer
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leader of Little Big Horn
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Crazy Horse
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painter of Custer's last stand
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August Bush
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world centers around us
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Ethnocentrism
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wrote "Century of Dishonor"
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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separate from any tribe, but in US territory can be citizen
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Dawes Act
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cleanse Native Americans
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Ivory Soap
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machine gun
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Gatling Gun
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practice religion the dead indians and buffalo will return and flood will kill white people
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Ghost Dance Religion
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Leader of Ghost Dance Religion
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Wovoka
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where Sitting Bull is killed
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Wounded Knee Reservation
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become apart of a group
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assimilation
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most famous Indian school
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Carlisle Indian School
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famous Indian athlete
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Jim Thorpe
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born in US=Citizen
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Citizenship of 1924
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middle of great depression...attempt to preserve tribes
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Indian Reorganization Act
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speak language not written during WWII
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Navajo Code Talkers
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fool, stupid
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Tanto
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author of Bury My Heart
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Dee Brown
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gave land in Maine to Indians by Jimmy Carter
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Nonintercourse Act
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indians claim it
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Alcatraz
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