Ch.12-13 – Flashcards
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The discovery of this metal brought Native Americans and miners into conflict in the Black Hills of South Dakota
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Gold
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Those who gained the greatest benefit from the Dawes Act were
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the white settlers
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The Mexican vaquero did not influence the American cowboy in
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Politics
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Demand for beef in the East contributed to
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the development of the Chisholm Trail
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Most American cowboys
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used guns to protect theird herds
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The intent of the Homestead Act was to
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encourage white families to develop the West
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The Grange did NOT
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support banks
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Bimetallism would allow for the excahnge of paper currency for
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either silver or gold
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What marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians?
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the massacre at Wounded Knee
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What caused the change in the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation for Native Americans?
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white settlers began wanting the land on the Great Plains
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What was NOT central to life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800's?
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land ownership
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What marked the collapse of Populism?
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the Panic of 1893
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What is most responsible for bringing about the end of open range?
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barbed wire
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Who were exodusters?
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former slaves from South who settled on the Great Plains
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The interstate Commerce Act gave the right to supervise the railroad activites to
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the federal government
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What most allowed manufacteurers to build their factories awauy from rivers?
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railroads
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*Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis held that the frontier
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helped create the strong, individulaistic American spirit
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What did the Populists support?
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the progressive income tax
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What was a lingering myth about the West?
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settlers were nearly all white males
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*What describes key positions held by the Democratic Party in the Gilded Age?
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increased money supply, lower tariffs, and higher farm prices
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What reason was given by the settlers as to why they had a greter right to western lands than the Native Americans?
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settlers produced mroe food and wealth than Native Americans
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What [best] signaled the passing of the Indian's way of life on the Great Plains?
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the last land giveaway to homesteaders duriong the Oklahoma land rush
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What prompted the federal government to break the peace treaty with the Plains Indians in the 1868 leading to the Second Sioux War?
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the discovery of gold of the Black Hills
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*What is true about the Grangers?
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They were farmers who joined together to learn about scientific farming and for socializing
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Railroads are a public utility; that is, they are public in nature even though they are privately managed
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Granger
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Railroad companies alone have the right to regulate railroads
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Robber [Baron]
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Owners or property "in which the public has an interest must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good"
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Granger
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the federal government has the right to regulate private business if the states are not able to do so
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Granger
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if farmers want to send their goods to market, they should have to pay whatever shipping rate the railroad sets
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Robber [Baron]
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Farmers Alliances were formed as a result of whichi of the following?
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falling prices for farm goods & rising costs for transportation and storage of grain
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...Chief Joseph probably
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opposed to the confiement of Indians on reservations
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...the best interpretation of these lyrics from a cowboy song is that
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cowboys worked hard and resented the rich
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What group of laborers built the first transcontinental railroad?
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Chinese and Irish immigrants
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...The attitude expressed by Theodore Roosevelt in this quotation is probably
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basically in agreement with the Dawes Act
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an attempt to Americanize Native Americans by encouraging them to adopt white culture and become white farmers
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assimilation
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this ritual was supposed to restore the Native American way of life and end the drought
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Ghost Dance
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General Custer lost all his troops at this battle site when he fought Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
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Lilttle Big Horn River
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this is the vast grassland that extends through the west-central portion of the U.S.
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Great Plains
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money the govt. discontinued after the Civil War
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greenbacks
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process by which a company buys out all of its suppliers
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vertical integration
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pricess by which a company buys out all of its rival
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horizontal integration
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a market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages paid, and prices chagrged
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monopoly
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home madeout of prairie turf
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soddy
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settler who farmed land obtained from the federal government
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homesteader
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the sturdy Mexican cattle herded by cowboys
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longhorns
