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| What 4 states allowed women to vote? |
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| Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho |
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| created in 1868 to school newly freed slaves, allowed 1st Indian students in 1878 |
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Founded in PE in 1879
-outing system: Indian students lived with whites during the summer |
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-in Nevada, richest vein of silver ore on the continent
-people made money off of it by selling and buying stocks
-polgot (many races) population |
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-in the Comstock Lode
-more cosmopolitan than NYC or Boston
-polygot
-Irish= largest ethnic group
-nickname= Queen of the Comstock |
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| Several large corporations dominate an industry by dividing the market so each business has a share in it |
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| Promised 160 acres free to any citizen or prospective citizen who settled on the land for 5 years. |
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| Who got the best land in the West? |
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-An Illinois sheriff
-invented and patented barbed wire |
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| John "Bet a Million" Gates |
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| got rich off barbed wire by setting up a demonstration in 1879 |
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-a black cowboy portrayed as a whiteman in dime novels
-real name= Nat Love |
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| -moved from MI and LA to take up land in Kansas |
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| In Califronia what percentage of the population owned 50% of the available agricultural land by 1870? |
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| By 1900, what percentage of the population lived in cities? |
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| Henry Miller and Charles Lux |
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-pioneered the West's mix of agriculture and industrialism
-shared the main characteristics of other modern enterprises: corporate consolidation, vertical integration, and schemes to minimize labor costs and stablize the work force |
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| an all black community founded by 30 black Kentuckians in 1877 |
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| an all black community founded by 30 black Kentuckians in 1877 |
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| What did the Indian call Black soldiers in the Indian wars and why? |
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| Buffalo soldiers, because their hair resembled that of a buffalo |
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-built Salt Lake City with a complex system of irrigation
-used cooperation and communalism |
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-became a state in 1896
-had to renounce polygamy and gave women the right to vote |
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| -hired Chinese gangs to work the Central Pacific Railroad |
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-formed in 1876 to fight Chinese exclusion
-leader = Denis Kearney |
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| -slaughtered Cheyenne at Sand Creek in 1864 |
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-1887
-abolished reservations and alloted lands to individual indians as private property |
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| Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 |
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| -wrote "The Virginian"- western novel- gets put into movies, then into a TV series- about the cattle industry |
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| -"Century of Dishonor"- negative view of US breaking treaties |
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-wheel, irregular shaped momument
-28 spokes, 245 circumfrence |
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-1st national monument
-formed from a lava plug |
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