| A | B |
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| Why were Americans hostile towards the immigrants? | they looked different___they took the jobs of Americans |
| When did the frontier disappear | 1890 |
| What are two problems that the ranchers had | range wars, water problems |
| What are two problems that the miners had | people moved as gold and silver ran out, ghost towns |
| What are two problems that the homesteaders had? | Sod houses, droughts, floods, grasshoppers |
| Invented the steel plow | John Deere |
| What were some results of the Chinese Exclusion Act | no Chinese could enter the country for 10 years___Chinese built the Transcontinental Railroad |
| Invented the Barbed Wire | Joseph Glidden |
| what towns were established because of mining? | Denver, CO____Boise, Idaho_____Helena, Montana |
| What are boom towns? | towns that were successful as long as the mines near them produced |
| What are Ghost towns and Bust towns? | towns left behind when miners went on to find other mines |
| Where the transcontinental railroad met on May 10, 1869 | Promontery Point, Utah |
| connected east and west united states | Promontery Point, Utah |
| Largest silver mine in the US | Cornstock Lode |
| What was the significance of the Cornstock Lode? | brought many people out west to get rich, and they settled there |
| People who claimed land in Oklahoma sooner than they were supposed to | Sooners |
| Towns where cattle was brought to be shipped to the east to Chicago | Cattle Towns |
| What are some examples of Cattle Towns | Wichita, Kansas, Dodge City, Kansas, Abilene, Kasas |
| Where George Armstrong Custer took his 7th cavalry to fight Indians at Little Big Horn | Custer's Last Stand |
| Huge mistake and all members of his 7th cavalry were killed by the Sioux Indians | Little Bighorn |
| most famous Indian battle in American History | Little Bighorn |
| What were the American Soldiers determined to punish the Indian for? | the defeat at Little Bighorn |
| Last major battle with white men | Wounded Knee |
| American soldiers massacred 175 Indians | Wounded Knee |
| Lots of Indian women and children were killed | Wounded Knee |
| Chief of the Nez Perce Indians | Chief Joseph |
| said "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" | Chief Joseph |
| captured 40 miles from Canada after being chased by American soldiers who were trying to put them in reservations | Chief Joseph |
| Apache Chief | Geronimo |
| fierce warrior | Geronimo |
| took 8000 American soldiers and Mexican soldiers 5 years to capture 150 Apache in 1886 | Geronimo |
| attacked whites in the Southwest | Geronimo |
| Got his name from killing so many buffalo | Buffalo Bill Cody |
| started the Wild West show in 1886 | Buffalo Bill Cody |
| Settlers would get 160 acres of free land but they had to live on it for 5 years and improve it | Homestead Act |
| Famous outlaw of the west | Jesse James |
| shot and killed by one of his own gang for $10,000 | Jesse James |
| Attempt by white men to force Indians to accept the white man's culture | Dawes Act |
| schools where Indians not allowed to speak the Indian language or practice any of its customs were established | Dawes Act |
| Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People | NAACP |
| Who started the NAACP? | WEB Dubois |
| helped blacks get civil rights | NAACP |
| Best know cattle trail | Chisholm Trail |
| Railroad that connected east to west | Transcontinental Railroad |
| What was the significance of the Transcontinental Railroad | now person could travel across US more easily and brought people out there to settle |
| What did Joseph McCoy found? | first cow town- Abilene, Kansas |
| Black leader in the 1880s and 1890s | WEB Dubois |
| What did WEB Dubois believe? | that blacks should be given same opportunies as whites |
| What did Helen Hunt Jackson write? | Century of Dihonor____Romana |
| What did Helen Hunt Jackson write about | about how horribly Indians had been treated by white people |
| What was Annie Oakley famous for? | famous woman sharp shooter in the Wild West Show |
| Famous Black leader who belieed that blacks should learn practival skills and then get educated to become equal with whites | Booker T. Washington |
| What was the Long Drive | taking cattle north to cow towns to be shipped east on the railroad |
| Famous woman reformer | Jane Addams |
| What did Jane Addams begin? | Hull House in Chicago to help the poor |
| Fiercest Indian tribe that held out the longest and fought the hardest against the whites | Apaches |
| Famous reformer and reporter who took photograophs of immigrants to show the world the horrible conditions in which they lived | Jacob Riis |
| Movement which promoted hatred of all immigrants | Nativists |
| Where Colonel John Chivington refused to accept Black Kettle's surrender flag and brutally massacred 200 men, women, and children | Sand Creek Massacre |
| Immigration center in the New York City harbor through which all the immigrants were processed | Ellis Island |
| A building designed to house large number of people as cheaply as possible | Tenements |
| Where did most immigrants new to America live | Tenements |
| Where did we buy Alaska from | Russia |
| Who arranged the purchase of Alaska? | William Seward |
| What was Alaska called? | "Seward's Folly"___"Polar Bear Garden" because people thought that it was a waste of money |
| has gold and natural resources there | Alaska |
| What was Alaska bought for? | 7.2 Million dollars |
| How much was Alaska per acre? | 2 cents |
| Houses built with mud "bricks" in the west because there was no lumber | sod houses |
| End of the frontier | 1890 |
| Land rush in Oklahoma | April 22, 1889 |
| On this day at 12:00 noon thousands rushed for free land in Oklahoma | April 22, 1889 |
