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What best describes the meaning of the Ghost Dance?

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Expressed the losses suffered by Native Americans and hope for a better future.

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Complete the chart Surface Gold ran out > Hydraulic Mining was develeoped >

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Sediments were released into rivers, choking them and causing floods.

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Colonel John M. Chivington was condemned but not punished for his actions at _____

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Sand Creek Massacre

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The enclosure of the open range led to conflict between ___

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landless cattle owners and the ranchers and farmers who enclosed the land.

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Which factor helped Texas Longhorn cattle thrive on the plains?

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They could live on grass alone.

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What is Americanization?

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an attack on Native American beliefts and practices, including tribal identity.

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Which group of settlers was known as exodusters?

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African American settlers.

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In the 1850s U.S. gov. policy toward the indians changed from pushing them further werst to _____

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Sending them to reservations.

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The vast buffalo herds were reduced to just a few buffalo by U.S. Army policy and ____

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hunting by railroad passengers.

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Lt. Colonel George Armstronf Custer led his troops in an arrack against the Sioux and lost in the battle of___

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Little Bighorn

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This vision of a Paiute shaman, Wovika, developed into a religious movement known as hte ___

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Ghost Dance

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The discovery that 2 million acres in central Oklahoma had not been assigned to any Native American group led to ___

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the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889.

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What did the Plains Indians depend on for theie food, shelter, and clothing?

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buffalo

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Intense rivalry among competing miners often led to ____

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violence

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This event marked the end of the bloody conflict between the U.S. Army and the Plains Indians.

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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The statement made by Chief Joseph, 1887 was made when ____

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the Nez Perce surrendered to the U.S. Army

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The U.S. gov.'s two main motivations for creating indian reservations were to gain control over western territories and to___

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save the buffalo herds from extinction.

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Through different treaties Native American groups wre moved to reservations in Indian Territory, located in what is now ____

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Oklahoma

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Although Congress condemned Colonel John Chivington's actions here, it did not punish him.

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Sand Creek

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By the 1880s mining for ore in the west was dominated by ____

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large mining companies

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Cattle ranchers often did battle against __

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sheep ranchers and farmers.

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Icentives fot settlement of the Great Plains came mainly from ___

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congress and the railroads.

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In 1890 the Census Bureau issued a statement that essentially said ___

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the Frontier is CLOSED

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Turner's statement implied that the westward movement ___

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helped shape the American character.

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During the late 1870s, a large number of ____ moved ot Kansas to begin a new life.

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African Americans

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T/F today, historians agree with frederick jackson turner's thesis that the frontier was more important than anything else in u.s. development.

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False

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T/F the site in the Caston River valley where millions of dollars worth silver was mined is called the comstock lode.

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True

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T/F By the end of the 1800s huge herds of buffalo were again roaming the Plains.

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False

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T/F The Dawes Act turned tribe members into individual property owners.

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True

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T/F Many African Americans left the South to avoid segregation laws and the Ku Klux Klan.

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True

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Manages Native American Reservations

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Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Said, "From where the sun now stands I will fight more forever."

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Chief Joseph

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Developed a new plow with a sharper edge.

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James Oliver

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Removed from command for his role in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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James Forsyth

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Defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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George Armstrong Custer

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Declared the frontier closed.

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Census Bureau

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Community builder who urged African American to move to Kansas.

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Benjamin "Pap" Singleton

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Victorious Sioux lwader at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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Black Elk

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Plains Indian survivor of Wounded Knee Massacre.

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Joseph Glidden

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Led army troops to kill women, children, and the elderly in the Samd Creek Massacre.

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John M. Chivington

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What event from the early 1900s would explain the change in oil production from1900 to 1910?

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the Texas Oil Boom

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Which of the following is true for bothe partnershops and corporations?

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Ownership is held by stickholders.

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What change characterized the Second Industrial Revolution.

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the replacement of steam and water power with electrical power.

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Why was the transcontinental railroad important>

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It promoted trade and provided jobs for many Americans.

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Which of these speakers is a believer in social Darwinism.

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"Weak and struggling buisness should never get assistance from the government."

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which of the following buisness leaders was famous for building his business through both horizontal and vertical integration?

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John D. Rockefeller

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Which of the followinf developments benefited rural Americans?

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the development of mail-order catalogs.

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The quote by Thomas Alva Edison reflects which of the following values of the Second Industrail Reveloution.

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self-reliance and individualism

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Public transportation systems that carry large numbers of people and make fixed stops along established routes are called ___

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mass transit systems

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The first true flight in an airplane took place on December 17, 1903, near ___

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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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What was Thomas Alva Edison's attitude toward failures?

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Failures were as valuable to him as successes.

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The Bessemer process revolutionized this industry.

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Steel

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The first successful oil well was drilled in ___

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Pennsylvania

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In laying track for the transcontinental railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad proceeded more quickly because it benefited from ___

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smoother terrain

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Railroads led to the adoption of ___

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standard time zones

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In capitalism, most industries are run by ____

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private businesses.

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As indicated in the excerpt from a Horatio Alger novel, the key 19th century values were ___

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honesty and work ethic.

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The owners of a corporation are its ___

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stockholders

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Among the advantages of a corporation are ____

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the effeciency and payscale.

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In Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnagie explained his belief that great wealth was a ____

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resource to be used to benefit others.

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The town of Pullman, south of Chicago was notable because it was ___

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built and controlled by the Pullman Company.

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Shopping became easier with the emergence of ____

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department stores

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In 1890 Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act to ____

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promote competition and free trade.

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T/F Risk takers who use their money and talents to launch new ventures are called entrepreneurs.

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True

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T/F A monopoly occurs when companies agree to merge and turn over their seperate stocks to a board of trustees.

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False

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T/F The Knights of Labor were blamed for the Haymarket Riot.

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True

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T/F Most workers who participated in the pullman strik were fired or blacklisted.

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True

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QWERTY is the keyboard developed for the first typewriters, and is still in use today.

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False

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A machine that sends messages over wires, using electricity.

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telegraph

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Oil Prospectors

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wildcatters

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Enabled easier travel from the eastern to western United States.

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transcontinental railroad

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An economic system in which private businesses run most industries.

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Capitalism

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A system in which companies operate without government regulation.

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laissez-faire capitalism

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Complete control over an industry.

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Monopoly

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The practice of acquiring companies that supply a business.

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Vertical integration

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The practice of taking over other companies that produce the same product.

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Horizontal integration

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Lists of people percieved as troublemakers who would not be hired.

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Blacklists

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Fear of foreigners.

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Xenopobia

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