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Mrs. Green US History 1877
Ch 1
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History
10th Grade
08/25/2010

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In 1876 the treaty of 1868 was broken at this battle?

Also colonial general custer and his 15 men are killed by indains here.

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Little Bighorn
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In 1877 took his tribe to canida but never made it.
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Chief Joseph
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what was the 3 reasons for the ghost dance?
Definition

1. To make the whiteman disappear.

2. To make the buffalo come back.

3. There ancestors to come back.

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In 1890 a blind Indian is shoved and a gun goes off and hits some one and all the guns go off and most women and children were killed.
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Wounded Knee
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In 1887 the forced Natives to move the Indians to smaller and smaller reservations to destroys there culture.

 

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The Dawes Severalty Act
Term
Most planters houses made out of this its made of grass, dirt. mud and roots.
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sod
Term
Aloud people to come and get 100 acres of land if they were 21 you would have to work on it for 5 years.
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Homestead Act
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In 1887 what divided the reservations?
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Dawe's Severalty Act
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When the Territory of Oklahoma was opened for settlement, April 22, 1889, when a gun when of and staked there clam in 1907 it was gain its statehood.
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Oklahoma Land Rush
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When settler that slipped in early to stake clam were shout are know as what.
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Sooners
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John deere invented what and it could cut throw dirt.
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Steel plow
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Farmers use this to pum water out of the ground.
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windmills
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Found in 1867 was a farmers first to attempt to organize common hood.
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The Grange
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It was made to help get farm supplies were the farmers formed an Alliance. 
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cooperatives
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A party formed by farmers
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Populist Party
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What act was made to keep the farmers from voting anyone from the populist party.
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The Sherman Sliver Purchase Act
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In 1859 silver was found in Nevada, large depoit of silver was called?
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Comstock Lode
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The Black Hills are the whos home?
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Sioux
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What is a boom town and a ghost town?
Definition

1. A boom town is a town that is created almost after night in a city because gold was found.

2. A ghost town is an abandon boom town.

Term
A valuble thing to convert eletricty found in 1881
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Copper
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What did people from the frontier use to protect them self?
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Revolver
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Where did The Union Pacific start at and who where most of there workers?
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Omaha, Nebraska and Irish
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Where did The Central Pacific start at and who where most of there workers?
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Sacramento, Californian and Chinese
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In 1881 Helen Hurt jackson wrote?
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A Century of Dishonor
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