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| Because crime was a serious problem in mining towns, these were created to seek out wrong-doers and punish them? |
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| In Nevada the boom and bust town of Virginia City was centered around silver in what mine? |
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| What type of mining uses tools like pick axes to extract shallow deposits? |
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| What type of mining is deep digging to get minerals under the surface? |
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| From the Mining blog and discussion, what are 2 similarities between the Bakken Oil Fields in North Dakota and the 'boom towns' of the old west like Lead, Virginia City, and Leadville? Please explain. |
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| Crime, housing, good money, poor living conditions, little law/rampant crime, drugs/alcohol... (not all the things or the explanation but general points that could be made- this is not a perfect answer) |
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| Stephen Long described the land west of the 100th Meridian and East of the Rockies as? |
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| The Great American Desert (correct answer, your response) |
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| Besides help from the railroad for settling the West, this "Act" gave settlers 160 acres of land or more for 10 dollars IF they lived on the land for 5 years. |
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| Homestead Act (correct answer, your response) |
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| When did South Dakota become a state? |
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| 1889 (correct answer, your response) |
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| What city became the second largest in the West due to it being a supply point for mining towns? |
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| Denver, CO (correct answer, your response) |
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| These were created when ranchers in Texas found they could make ten times the money if they could get cattle to the East markets. |
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| Long Drives (correct answer) |
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| The Homestake Mine is the deepest mine in the Western Hemisphere at 8,000 feet. Where is it located? |
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| Lead-Deadwood, South Dakota (correct answer, your response) |
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| What economic idea drives ranching and mining in the West? |
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| Supply and Demand (correct answer) |
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| This invention ended 'range wars,' long drives, the open range, and allowed ranchers to keep cattle close to resources like food and water. |
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| Barbed Wire (correct answer, your response) |
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| These are areas of government owned land that cattle could roam free and allowed for the expanse of the industry |
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| Open Range (correct answer, your response) |
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| This "Act" set up land to specifically be used for colleges, also known as land-grant colleges. |
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| Morrill Act (correct answer, your response) |
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| The last lands to be settled on the frontier was this "Sooner" state that had 10,000 people race to stake lands w/in hours of opening up. What was the state? |
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| Oklahoma (correct answer, your response) |
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| Along with other advances what 2 things helped farming of wheat in the Dakotas, W. Nebraska, and Kansas? Pick the 2 that helped. |
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| Steel Plow (correct answer, your response)Mechanical Reaper (correct answer, your response) |
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| With little wood to build houses, what did the settlers build as homes? |
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| Sod Houses (correct answer, your response) |
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| Every state in the United States including Puerto Rico has a Land Grant College. What were they set up to promote? (Check only one) |
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ROTC and 4-H Programs
• Agriculture
• Engineering
• Traditional Academics
• All the Above (correct answer, your response) |
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| Little Crow lead this uprising that ended with hundreds of settlers killed and 38 Dakota Indians sentenced to death. |
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| Dakota Sioux Uprising (correct answer) |
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| Red Cloud and Crazy Horse trick 80 soldiers and their leader (the guy the massacre is named for) into an ambush were they are all slaughtered. |
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| Fetterman's Massacre (correct answer) |
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| Chief Black Kettle was attempting to negotiate a peace at Fort Lyon when Colonel Chivington and his men presumably began to fire upon unsuspecting men, women, and children outside the fort. |
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| Sand Creek Massacre (correct answer) |
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| The _________ Act gave 160 acres of land to each Native American family in an attempt to tie them to the land and make them farmers. |
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| Colonel George Custer is sent to deal with the Native American's violation of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. He over-estimates his opponent and gets everyone killed at this battle. |
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| Battle at Little Bighorn (correct answer) |
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| In 1890 Lakota Sioux ignored the law to stop the Ghost Dance. When these rebellious Native Americans are attacked in December, 200 Lakota and 25 soldiers die at this tragic end to the Indian uprisings. |
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| Tragedy at Wounded Knee (correct answer) |
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| What were the 5 things that were in the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty? |
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a.INDIANS AND UNITED STATES PLEDGED THEMSELVES TO A LASTING PEACE BETWEEN ALL THE NATIONS ASSEMBLED
b.INDIANS RECOGNIZED THE RIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO CONSTRUCT ROADS AND MILITARY POSTS WITHIN THEIR TERRITORIES
c. PROMISED TO KEEP THE PEACE AMONG OUR SELFS
d.US AGREED TO PROTECT THE INDIANS
e.COMPENSATE THE INDIANS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF THEIR LIVES BY PAYING THE TRIBES FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH YEAR FOR 50 YEARS |
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