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| The route followed by Texas cattle raisers driving their herds north to markets at Kansas railheads. |
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| An 1887 law terminating tribal ownership of land and allotting some parcels of land to individual Indians with the remainder opened for white settlement. |
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| Law passed by Congress in May 1862 providing homesteaders (mainly in the West) with 160 acres of free land in exchange for improving the land (as by cultivating it and erecting a house) within 5 years of the grant. |
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| Battle of the Little Bighorn |
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| Battle in which Colonel George A. Custer and the 7th Calvary were defeated by the Sioux and the Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana in 1876. |
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| The near annihilation in 1864 of Black Kettle's Cheyenne band by Colorado troops under Colonel John Chivington's orders to "kill and scalp all, big and little." |
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| Second Treaty of Fort Laramie |
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| The treaty acknowledging U.S. defeat in the Great Sioux War in 1868 and supposedly guaranteeing the Sioux perpetual land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. |
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| The U.S. Army's brutal winter massacre in 1890 of at least 200 Sioux men, women, and children as part of the government's assault on the tribes Ghost Dance religion. |
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| Name the 2 main immigrant groups that worked on the railroad. 1 worked on the Union Pacific RR as it was built westward and the other worked on the Central Pacific RR as it was built eastword. |
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- Transport goods from one side of the country to the other.
- Cut travel time for people. They could get places faster.
- Helped build up the West.
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| Name 3 reasons why the transcontinental railroad was important. |
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| Where did the Native Americans originally come from? |
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| Between 1870 and 1910, the number of jobs in the American workforce ______________. |
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| Congress passed the Naturalization Act barring this group from citizenship. |
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True or False The Indians had a natural immunity to smallpox, cholera, measles, and scarlet fever. |
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Who is doing the killing in the following even that is described in Ch. 19? "They were scalped, their brains knocked out; the men used their knives, ripped open women, clubbed little children, knocked them in the head with their guns, beat their brains out, mutilated their bodies in every sense of the word." |
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| Labor union that included skilled and unskilled workers irrespective of race or gender; founded in 1869, peaked in the 1880s, and declined when its advocacy of the 8 hour workday led to violent strikes in 1886. |
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True or False Child Labor was no longer common in certain industries in America during the period covered by our chapter 1870 - 1910. |
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True or False Before typewriters, most office workers were women. |
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| Most of the Asian immigrants work on the ____________ Coast during 1870 to 1930s. |
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| Most of the European immigrants worked on the _____________ Coast during 1870 to 1930s. |
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Most Mexican immigrants worked in ________________ part of the United Stated during 1870 to 1930s. |
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True or False In 1881, 30,000 railroad workers were either killed or maimed on the job. |
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| Between 1872 to 1874, white hunters working for the railroads killed 4 million of these creatures, which severely impacted the lives of the Native Americans. |
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| What country treated the Native American with less respect? |
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What is the most political correct term to use when referring to this ethnic group? Indian or Native American |
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| Fencing was a major issue out West for obvious reasons - to protect crops and animals. However, without a sufficient supply of timber, farmers could not build wooden fences. What invention in the 1870s solved this problem? |
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- Native Americans
- Whites
- Native Americans
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The Native Americans and the Whites had clashing value systems. Below are 2 value systems. Which one belonged to the Native Americans and which one belonged the the Whites? - Community Welfare/subsistence economy/harmony with nature.
- Individual interest/profit motive/extracting wealth from the land
- Frequent religious rituals relating to hunting
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| Name 2 cities or states where gold was discovered. |
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| Because of the gender imbalance, and limited economic opportunity for women, this was the largest source paid employment for women in the West. |
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