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| Where were the treaties made that started the system of Reservations? |
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| Fort Laramie in 1851&1853 (Check for correction) |
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| What was the Job of the US Army after the civil war? |
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| To clear the West of Indians and make it safe for Easterners. |
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| What period did the Indian Wars era take place? |
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| What two inventions gave the Army the upper hand? |
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| The revolver (by Samuel Colt) and the Winchester Rifle. |
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| Who invented the Revolver? |
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| What was the name Indians gave to black soldiers in the US Army? |
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| What was the Sand Creek Massacre? |
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| When Colonel JM Chivington's troops slaughtered 400 Indians. (1864) |
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| What was the Fetterman Massacre? |
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| When the Sioux Indians stopped the Bozeman Gold trail and Killed Cpt William J Fetterman and his 81 soldiers. (1868) |
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| What happened at the treaty of Ft Laramie and when was it signed? |
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| Treaty established a large Sioux Reservation and relinquished control of the Bozeman Trail. (1868) |
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| Why did Col Custer lead a "geological" expedition to the Black Hills in South Dakota? |
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| Because Gold was discovered there in 1874. |
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| What happened at the battle of Little Bighorn? |
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| Sioux Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Custer led 400 calvarymen and 200+ infantry to over 12000 indians. |
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| Who led the Nez Perce tribe? |
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| What happened at the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain? |
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| Chief Joseph was captured, and gave his speech saying "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more" |
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| How much of the Nez Perce died on the reservation? |
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| Who was the leader of the Apache in the West? |
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| What 5 things caused the Indians to be subdued? |
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| Railroads,diseases,lack of buffalo, war and loss of their land. |
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| How many buffalo were there at the end of the civil war? |
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| Main reasons buffalo were diminished |
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| The expansion of railroads. |
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| Why were buffalo killed by humans? |
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| hides, sport, to kill off the indian way of life |
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| By 1885, how many buffalo were left? |
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| Who wrote A Century of Dishonor? |
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| What did Helen Hunt Jackson's novels do to the American people? |
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| They helped to outline the injustice from whites to Native Americans. |
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| Why did the government outlaw the sun dance? |
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| They wanted to convert Indians to christianity. |
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| What was the significance of the ghost dance? |
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| The Sioux believed if they did the ghost dance then Jesus would wipe out everybody but Indians in American and basically revert everything to 1491. |
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| What did the Government do about the Ghost dance? |
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| They banned it because they thought it was a plot to bring down the US. |
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| What battle put an end to the Indian Wars? |
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| The Battle of Wounded Knee(1890) |
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| What was the purpose of the Dawes Act? |
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| It's overall goal was to blend indians into white society. Passed in 1887 |
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| When could Indians become US Citizens? |
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| After they lived in the US for 25 years. |
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| What was Carlisle Indian School |
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| It's goal was to train the Indian children into english speaking christian children. |
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| Why was Jim Thorpe significant? |
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| He was one of the best athletes in American History and a Graduate of Carlisle |
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| Where was gold discovered in 1858? |
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| What was discovered in Nevada in 1864? |
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| A very large cache of Silver that totalled 340 million dollars |
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| What were nicknames of the boomtowns in Nevada? |
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| HELLdorados becayse they were lawless |
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| What two authors captured the American folklore and mining life? |
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| Mark Twain and Bret Harte |
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| Why did beef become a big business? |
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| Because farmers began to ship cattle on rail roads. |
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| The Swift and Armour families |
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| A cattledrive from Texas to the RailRoads in Kansas. |
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| 2 famous sheriffs/lawmen in the wild west |
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| Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickock |
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| Who invented barbed wire? |
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| What was the Homestead Act? |
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| It offered 160 acres of cheap land to settlers who stay on it for atleast 5 years. |
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| How many settlers took advantage of the Homestead Act? |
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| What caused the Americans to move out past the 100th Meridian? |
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| What caused the dustbowl in the 1930s? |
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| Farmers were using the Dry Farming technique |
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| What was significant about the census bored in 1890? |
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| There was no longer a discernable frontier line |
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| What was the first national park? |
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| Who wrote and what was the Turner Thesis? |
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| Fredrick Jackson Turner wrote about how the frontier had played an important role in US History |
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| What was the safety-valve theory |
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| Amercians couyld always just pull up, leave and go westward |
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| Why did the farming business boom in 1870s? |
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| The farmers began to grow only one valuble crop even though it ruined their fields |
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| What inventions helped turn farms into factories? |
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| Steam driven tractors, the combine |
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| What helped with food transport that was invented in the 1880s? |
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| What were the two biggest concerns of farmers? |
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| Low crop prices and deflated currency |
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| What was perhaps the farmers biggest enemy? |
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| RailRoads because farmers relied heavily on the railroads for transport of goods. |
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| What was the greenback movement? |
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| The push for paper money. |
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| A group of farmers advancing for a farmers agenda. Founded by Oliver H Kelley |
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| What was sought out by the grange? |
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| Co-Ops, regulation of railroads, |
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| What happened in the Wabash Case? |
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| Supreme court stated that states cannot regulate interstate trade. |
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| What candidate did the Greenback party run in 1880? |
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| What organization (similar to the grange)was started 1870 |
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| What political party was formed out of the Farmer's Alliance? |
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| Who was Mary Elizabeth Lease? |
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| Somebody who rallied up the Farmers to protest more, also called Mary Yellin or the Kansas Python |
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| Who did the populists run in 1892? |
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| What was the pullman strike? |
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| A strike of workers from the Pullman train company led by Eugene Debs |
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| What did US Attorney General Richard Olney do? |
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| Called in Federal troops to break up the strike. |
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| What were the two candidates for the election of 1896? |
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| William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan |
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| Who won the election of 1896 |
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| What was the Gold Standard Act? |
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| (1900) Saying people could trade Paper money for God. |
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