Chp. 4 – History – Flashcards
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Which of the following was a hardship faced by settlers on the Great Plains?
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prairie fires
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The fencing of the open range resulted in
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the end of the long cattle drives
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the army encouraged the killing of buffalo in order to
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protect crops
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Which of the following greatly spurred the settlement of Colorado, Arizona, and Montana?
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the arrival of large numbers of miners
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One approach to farming on the Great Plains was "dry farming," in which farmers
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planted seeds deep in the ground
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Early prospectors would extract minerals from the sides of the mountains using high powered water, this was called what?
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hydraulic mining
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Before the Sand Creek Massacre, the Cheyenne had come to Fort Lyon to
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negotiate
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The Dawes Act attempted to help Native Americans by what?
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giving them land for farming
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The Dakota Sioux uprising occurred as a result of what?
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poverty,caused by annuities payments that were not received
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The confrontation at Wounded Knee occurred because the chief's followers
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performed a ritual
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The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of
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silver
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At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as threat because it did what?
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harmed their cattle
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The Homestead Act gave land to homesteaders if they did what for five year?
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lived on it
