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What happended when gold was discovered in the Black Hills? |
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Thousands of miners ignored Sioux rights and flooded the land. |
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| What were some problems that miners encountered? |
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| Dust caused lung problems, and cave-ins often killed people. |
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| What did Grange cooperatives do for the farmers? |
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| They asked states to regulate railroad freight and storage charges. |
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| How was law handled by vigilantes? |
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| Vigilantes took the law into their own hands. They caught suspected criminals and punished them without a trial. they hung suspects from the nearest tree or shot them on the spot. |
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| Why did U.S. soldiers kill ghost Dancers in the Wounded Knee Massacre? |
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| The soldiers feared the Ghost Dancers were preparing for war. |
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| what did Geronimo and Chief Joseph have in common? |
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| They fled rather than move onto reservations. |
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| What attracted a group of African Americans called "Exodusters" to Kansas? |
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| Under the Homestead Act, they could own 160 acres of land there. |
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| What did Populists NOT support? |
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| They did not support an increase in shipping rates. |
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| How did railroads affect Western migration? |
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| The government gave railroads land, which they advertised in Europe and sold to settlers. |
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| What was NOT true of women's roles in the West? |
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| They spent most of their time holding cooking contests at their town's general store. |
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| What natural obstacles did settlers on the plains face that made prarie life hard? |
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| * Settlers faced harsh conditions such as blizzards, locusts, hail, tornadoes, and prarie fires. The lack of trees caused the settlers to be innovative for fuel and building materials. The ground was difficult to plow, and water was often scarce and deep underground. |
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| How did the settlement of the Great Plains affect the buffalo, and why did that disrupt the Native Americans' way of life? |
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| Ranches, farms, mines, cities, and barb-wire fences in the West destroyed the open praries on which the buffalo roamed. White settlers on the plains wildly hunted buffalo, killing more than they needed. Hunters killed more than one million buffalo each year. Plains tribes depended on buffalo for their way of life. Buffalo provided food, shelter, clothing, and tools for them. Because of the dwindling supply of buffalo, their means of survival was disrupted. |
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