Areas to Concentrate on for Chapter 14 Test
Frederick Jackson Turner
Turner’s Frontier Thesis
All of the Acts that dealt with the settlement of the West
Reasons for the end of the open range/cattle boom
Chief Joseph
Destruction of Native Americans
Myth/reality of the west
Bonanza Farms
Cash crops
Farmers’ problems
Government’s policy towards Native Americans
Mining/Farming & big business
Disagreements of federal government and Native Americans
Result of the Massacre at
Cowboy fact
Inflation
Deflation
Election 1896
Reforms of Populists
Department of Agriculture
Helen Hunt
Nat Love
Reservations
Long Drive
Goldbugs/silverites
Ghost Dance/Wovoka
Dawes Act
Mary Lease
Women’s achievement in the west
Order of Native American battles
Boomers, sooners, squatters
Vaquero
Mexican influence on cowboy
Grange
Farmers
Election 1892
Speculators
Tariffs
Custer
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*Map areas on test: Mountains (Bitteroot, Rocky, Cascade & Sierra Nevada), States (