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Chapter 18 SS Test

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What did the US government do next?
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What is the significance of barbed wire?
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What were the challenges faced by the farmers in the Midwest
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What was the role of women in the west? What affect did the role of women in the west have on their political rights?
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What was the populist party? What were its 3 top beliefs?
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What were the challenges of the Homestead Act?
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What did Indians believe about owning land, profit, buffalo and structures?
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What metals were the miners mining for?
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What was the Ghost Dance? What effect did the Ghost Dance have on the Army? What effect did the Army's response have on the INdians?
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What led to the cattle boom in the west?
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Which two companies competed to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?
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Was the Treaty broken? By whom?
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What did buffalo mean to white settlers, Indians and the railroad companies?
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What risks did the miners face?
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What was the Homestead Act and why was it created?
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Where did the two railroads meet? What date?
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who liked the populist party & why?
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What was the Grange?
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Where did each start their piece of the railroad?
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What is a cowhand?
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You must be 21 yrs old, get 160 acres for $10, 6 months to build house and live there 5 years successfully growing crops. Created to encourage settlers to move west.
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Promontory Point, Utah. May 10, 1869.
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Fences off the land and no one can get through, forcing cattle drives to become longer, competition between farmers and ranchers led to fights over land.
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Buffalo to white settlers were sport, to Indians, they were survival, and to the railroad companies, a nuisance. This caused a problem because the buffalo were destroying the railroad tracks, so they were being killed. The Indians needed them.
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The government broke the treaties and made new treaties limiting the Indians to less and less land.
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Population growth led to increased demand for beef.
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A group of farmers that wanted to take the economy into their own hands because the government was ignoring issues related to labor & farming: govt should control telegraph & railroad, 8 hour work day and limits on immigration - farmers & laborers
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Cowhand/Cowboy led the cattle drives from the Great Plains to the railroads.
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Did the chores, worked on newspapers, cooked, cleaned, and with the Homestead Act, could own land. Women's rights increased.
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Land should be shared, didn't believe in making a profit, needed buffalo for survival, houses (aka teepees) should be portable so they could follow the buffalo
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Precious metals, aka gold and silver.
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Injury or death from unsafe machinery, explosions, fires, cave-ins and lung disease.
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stay on land for 5 years while farming it - build a house in 6 months.
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Tough grass and soil, lack of building materials (wood), very hot in the west, tornados
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A social and educational organization for farmers
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Wovoka created - claimed he died while chopping wood and God told him that if he did the dance that all the whites would die and the dead relatives would come back to life. Army thought it was a war dance, asked for Indian weapons to be turned over.
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The mining and prospectors broke the treaties looking for gold and silver everywhere.
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Central Pacific started in Sacramento, California and Union Pacific started in Omaha, Nebraska
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Farmers & laborers - farmers because gov't control of railroads would make more favorable shipping charges & laborers to limit the workday
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The Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
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How much did a cowhand earn?
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Where did cowhands sleep?

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