History Unit 2 – Flashcards with Answers
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The Dawes Act was passed to
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force native americans to adopt western culture and farming practices
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The Dawes act
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try to turn Native Americans into farmers who would find their own individual plots only
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which Native American nations most associated with wounded knee
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Sioux
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what did the events that took place between chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and the federal government illustrate about the US relations in the late 19 century
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violent conflicts continued to be a waged between the Native Americans in the government
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what was the main focus of the ghost dance movement
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restoring the traditional way of life to Native Americans and repelling white settlement
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in what ways did the Dawes act affect the status of American Indians
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tribal lenders transferred to individual Indian families
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which statement best describes the cultures of the tribes that lived throughout the west
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A wide spectrum of tribes had successfully adapted their lives to a variety of environments
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The speaker of these words was
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Sioux chief, Sitting Bull
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Who was "they" in the quote
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European American settlers
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which statement best describes the speakers meaning of "this mysterious power"
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The gods who spirits are alive in a shared earth
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when the speaker refers to fences and buildings is expressing disenchantment with
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The whites rigid territorial believe in private property
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The speaker concludes that we cannot live side-by-side because
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he feels whites will never stop wanting Indian lands
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what event in 1848 started a huge influx of whites into Indian territory
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Discovery of gold
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which statement about the Sandcreek massacre is not true
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The fighting began when Indians attacked a mining town
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whites destroyed the buffalo herds for all the following reasons except
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The government believes the Indians would survive better with fewer buffalo
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The first large gold rush of the late 1800s occurred in
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in the mountains of Colorado
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all of the following statements are true about typical mining towns except
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as towns developed local agriculture and transportation decreased
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which statement about prostitutes in mining towns is not true
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most prostitutes were able to save enough to buy small homes or businesses
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in "Roughing it" Mark twain wrote that man freaking influential in mining towns by selling
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whiskey
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what was significant about the town of Bodie, California between 1877 and 1883
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it had a homicide rate higher than that of amy US city
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which group suffered from the most prejudice in mining towns
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Chinese Americans
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mining eventually became a corporate operation because
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massive capital investment in equipment was conductive to financial success
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The mining industry entered a new era of commercial success with the mining of
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Quartz
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The development of my new technology resulted in
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less use of skilled labor
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Violence and conflict often erupted between miners and mine owners due too
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conditions caused by the industrialization of mining
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those farmers who were successful on the Great Plains
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relied on the assistance of other settlers around them
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Exodusters were
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Southern blacks who went West to settle
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The _?_ was an area Texans used to drive the cattle through Indian territory Northward to Abilene
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Chisholm Trail
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which event happened first
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homestead act was passed
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what even happened last
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The massacre at wounded knee
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all of the following statements about the cattle kingdom are true except
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large-scale capital investment was not a major part of the cattle kingdoms growth
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Joseph McCoy made in the important decision when he
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established a northern shipping point for cattle in Abilene
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primary duties of gunfighters turned sheriffs, such as Wyatt earp, often included
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arresting drunks and collecting fines
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The corporate cattle boom collapsed because
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corporations overstock ranges which caused ecological disaster
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The function of the morrill land grant act of 1862 was to
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assist states with establishing colleges
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ecological disasters that plagued the cattle kingdom included all of the following except
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A series of deadly tornadoes that destroy commercial ranges
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The Homestead act
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guaranteed free acres of land to citizens who farmed the land for five years
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many farmers of the Great Plains turned to growing wheat because
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it was more resistant to drought then corn
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as western farming was incorporated into national life it relied all the following except
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foreign capital
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in the 1880s western farmers were plagued by severe drought and
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protective trade barriers established by foreign nations
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White pioneers on Great Plains face all of the following problems except
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The loud clamoring of crowded neighbors who rushed to build housing
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The westward expansion have all of the following effects except
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vast wealth for many pioneers
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which statement would have most likely been said by a member of las gorras blancas
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we raid at night if needed to stop to Anglo encroachment on our land
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A lack of timber cost a shortage of fencing that was finally solved by
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The invention of Barbed wire
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Railway companies encourage settlers to come to the west
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so they would grow food that could be transported on rail lines
