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| What does the "Wild West" refer to? |
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The popular folklore of the west - Miners, Cowboys/ Cowgirls, Prostitutes, etc.
Historical Significance: Brought American economic practices - miners and ranchers were drawn into paid labor and experienced wage dependence (like the industrial workers) Source: Pg. 351 |
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| Which gender played a more significant role in the "Wild West"? |
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| What does "Family West" refer to? |
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Definition
Settlers domesticating the prairies of America's heartland
Historical Significance: Imported American social and cultural values of industriousness and domesticity Source: Pg. 347 |
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| Which gender played the more significant role in the "Family West"? |
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Definition
Women
Historical Significance: While men were trying to find their fortunes in the mines, women stayed at home and performed all of the domestic duties; unlike women who lived in urban areas, these women performed chores without the technological innovations available in more industrialized areas Source: Pgs. 342, 347 |
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Term
| Who are some of the examples of Native American "Hostiles" who resisted compromising with whites? |
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Definition
Geronimo; Lozen
Source: Pg. 342 |
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Term
| After the Civil War ended in 1865, what was the focus of the U.S. militia? |
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Definition
"Closing the west"
Source: Pg. 342 |
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Term
| Which Native American woman served as a U.S. Army scout and translator before becoming a "crusader against the reservation system"? |
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Definition
Sarah Winemucca
Source: Pg. 343 |
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Native American Apache woman "hostile" who worked with Geronimo
Historical Significance: She was Geronimo's "right hand 'woman'" as she was his lieutenant and helped his band "evade and attack the U.S. Army for almost a decade." Source: Pg. 342 |
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Term
| When was the massacre at Wounded Knee? |
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Term
| Who was involved at Wounded Knee? |
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Definition
Lakota Native Americans and U.S. soldiers
Source: Pg. 343 |
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Term
| What Lakota religion/ ritual developed prior to Wounded Knee that promised the "restoration of the Lakota's traditional lands and lives"? |
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Definition
The "Ghost Dance"
Source: Pg. 343 |
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Term
| Fill in the blank: During the "Ghost Dance" ritual, dancers wore a special robe that was believed to protect them from ____________. |
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| Who designed the robes that the dancers wore in the "Ghost Dance" ritual? |
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Definition
The Lakota women
Source: Pg. 343 |
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Term
| Describe the massacre at Wounded Knee. |
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Definition
Soldiers were afraid that the "Ghost Dance" signaled a new insurgency and fired on a camp of mostly unarmed native people, killing hundreds
Source: Pg. 343 |
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Term
| When were Native American children forced into government boarding schools? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the goal of the government boarding schools designed for Native American children? |
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Definition
To "save the child by destroying the Indian"
Source: Pg. 343 |
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Term
| What were Native American girls taught at the government boarding schools? |
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Definition
Domestic roles
Historical Significance: In Native American society, women traditionally worked communally alongside men. When only taught these domestic roles, they were made dependent on men/ husbands, which followed the pattern of white society. Source: Pg. 343 |
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Term
| How did Native American women use their skills learned in the government boarding schools? |
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Term
| Who was the first white-trained native women physician? |
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Definition
Susan La Flesche
Source: Pg. 345 |
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Term
| How did Susette La Flesche advocate for Indian rights to white audiences through her biracial experience? |
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Definition
By connecting the similarities between the lives of Native Americans and whites
Source: (Documents, Pgs. 373-378) |
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Term
| What was the U.S. government's response to protests against corruptions of the reservation system? |
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Definition
Passing the "Dawes Severalty Act"
Source: Pg. 345 |
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Term
| When was the Dawes Severalty Act passed by Congress? |
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Definition
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| Which "white champion of native rights" advocated the Dawes Severalty Act as a better alternative to the degrading reservation system, and wrote A Century of Dishonor (1881) to show how "U.S. Native American policy violated American's promise of liberty and freedom?" |
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Definition
Helen Hunt Jackson
Source: Pgs. 345-345 |
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Term
What was unfair about the Dawes Severalty Act? |
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Definition
The lands given to Native Americans were not fertile enough to grow crops and support their families (while whites received all the fertile lands)
Source: Pg. 345 |
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Term
| What did the Dawes Severalty Act do? |
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Definition
It divided reservation lands into allotments for individual native families (the "leftover" lands were sold to Non-Indians)
Source: Pg. 345 |
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| How did the Dawes Severalty Act increase Native American women's dependence on men? |
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Definition
If she divorced her husband, she lost the land
Historical Significance: This Act took away the Native American traditional communal land holding and farming practices, in that women did not have any property rights at all, following the pattern of white society Source: Pg. 345 |
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Term
| Which 1862 Act granted 160 acres to people willing to cultivate and "improve" the land? |
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Definition
The "Homestead Act"
Historical Significance: Source: Pg. 347 |
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Term
| What two commonalities were shared among women throughout the family-based West? |
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Definition
Unpaid labor Had to work everything from scratch
Source: Pg. 348 |
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Term
| What was the worst part of life for women in the Family-based West? |
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Definition
Isolation
Source: Pg. 349 |
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Term
| What was established in 1867 that helped women overcome their isolation in the Family-based West? |
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Definition
National Grange
Source: Pg. 349 |
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Term
| When was the National Grange established? |
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Definition
1867
Source: Pgs. 349-350 |
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Term
| What did the National Grange prepare the way for? |
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Definition
Political expressions and agricultural discontent
Source: Pg. 350 |
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Term
| How did the National Grange enrich community life? |
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Definition
It sponsered social and cultural events
Source: Pg. 350 |
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| Fill in the blank: The National Grange was "based on the premise that farm families had to cooperate to succeed against the growing power of ______________." |
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Definition
Railroad and other Corporate Monopolies
Source: Pg. 349 |
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Term
| What did the National Grange do to fight against the Railroad and other corporate monopolies? |
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Term
Fill in the blank: Initially, most of the women in the Wild West were ______________. |
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Definition
Prostitutes
Source: Pg. 351 |
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Term
Fill in the blank: Historians refer to the Wild West prostitutes who worked for themselves (not hired by brothels) as ______________. |
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Definition
"Proprietor Prostitutes"
Source: Pg. 351 |
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| True or False: A few proprietor prostitutes were able to earn or marry their way into respectable society. |
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True or False: Although some women were successful in prostitution in the Wild West, it was a thoroughly losing proposition for most women. |
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True
Two-thirds of these prostitutes died young of STD's, botched abortions, alcohol abuse, suicide, or gunshots
Source: Pg. 351 |
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Term
| Which legendary Irish-born labor radical began her career as an organizer for miners' unions in the late 1890's and understood the power of miner's wives as an effective tool against strikebreakers? |
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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Source: Pg. 352 |
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