• 1) What was the book written by Helen Hunt Jackson describing America's
  treatment of the Native Americans?
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• 2) What were towns that arose from the mining areas called?
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• 3) What was performed by the Native Americans as a ritual that
  celebrated the hoped for day of reckoning when the settlers would
  disappear and the buffalo would return?
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• 4) What industry was responsible for helping to settle the west most?
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• 5) What was eliminated, many times as game, by the settlers on their
  entrance into the west that hurt the livelihood of the Indians?
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• 6) What is the word for being absorbed into the country or culture,
  it's what we wanted the Indians and immigrants to do?
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• 7) What was the ineffective policy passed by the U.S. in dealing with
  the Indians in which the U.S. would give each member of the tribe
  160 acres of land if they promised to farm it and become a member of
  the community?
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• 8) Who was the commander of the US forces at Little Big Horn?
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• 9) What was the battle between Custer and Sitting Bull in which the
  Indians defeated the US soldiers?
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• 10) What is considered the last battle in the Indian Wars in which over
  200 Indians were killed?
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• 11) Which Native American chief surrendered the Nez Perce because he
  said the Indians could fight no more
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• 12) What type of livelihood did the Indians follow by which they roamed
  the land in search of food and shelter?
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• 13) What was the name of the big silver strike in Nevada that
  exemplified the beginning of the mining craze and rise of boomtowns?
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• 14) What ended the period of the open range?
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• 15) What were the long trips cowboys would take the cattle on to
  slaughter?
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• 16) What two factors made cattle profitable?
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• 17) what was the vast area of grassland owned by the government in which
  cattle could graze called?
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• 18) Who were the first American cowboys?
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• 19) What was passed in order to settle the Great Plains by giving the
  settlers 160 acres of land cheaply for the promise of farming it for
  five years?
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• 20) Why were the plains called "The Great American Desert?
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• 21) What is considered the first big business in America?
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• 22) What was William Jennings Bryan's famous speech that pushed for the
  end of the gold standard?
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• 23) What monetary policy did the populists favor?
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• 24) What was created as an attempt to combat railroad's unfair policies
  of rebates and pooling?
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• 25) What group was the Populist movement trying to assist?
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• 26) What groups were created as an attempt to pull resources and bypass
  distributors and increase efficiency of the farmers?
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• 27) What was created in an attempt to regulate interstate commerce by
  limiting railroads ability to charge too high of prices?
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• 28) What helped to limit the spread of populism?
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