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| Native Americans (start howling like an indian now) |
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dissolved the legal entities of all tribes, but if the indians behaved the way Whites wanted them to behave, they could receive full US citizenship in 25 years
-wiped out tribal ownership of land
-reservation land not sold to indians was sold to railroads
-Carlisle Indian School in PA founded to teach Native american children how to behave like White man |
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| Indian Reorganization Act |
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| tried to restore Indian culture - reverse of dawes act |
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Gold was discovered in California and Pike's Peak, but within a month or two, it was all out
Comstock Lode in Nevada was discovered, and $340 million of silver and gold were mined |
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-Cow meat could finally be delivered efficently with railroads
meat packaging industry sprang up
Railroads made cattle herding business prosper, but it also destroyed it:
it brought sheepherders and homesteaders who built barbed-wire fences that were too numerous to be cut through by the cowboys
blizzards left dazed cattle starving and freezing |
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allowed people to get as much as 160 acres of land in return for living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of aobut $30.00, or allowed people to get land after only six months residence for $1.25 an acre
160 acres often wasnt enough for a family to earn a living and survive. they often moved out before the 5 years were up |
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Railroads helped develop the agricultural West.
higher wheat prices caused people to go west and grow wheat
dry farming was used by using shallow cultivation methods to plant and farm in times of drought
russian species of wheat was resistatnt to drought. it was brought in and grew all over the Great Plains |
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| Yellowstone national park |
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| national park opened in 1872, followed by Yosemite and Sequoia |
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| the fronteir was considered a safty valve since if it got too crowded people could move west. |
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| when farmers made more crops and forced prices down, the farmers found ruin and lost money. |
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farmers experience droughts, grasshopper plagues, and heat waves
painful taxes and getting harrassed by railroads, middlemen, and fertilizer trusts made farmers sad.
-farmers were disorganized |
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