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100
the death of a species (of animal)
What is extinction?
100
there had been as many as 15 million in the early 1800's
What are buffalo?
100
the discovery of this prompted many to rush to California
What is gold?
100
A social hardship on the Great Plains was this.
What is loneliness?
100
a political party's statement of belief
What is a platform?
200
across a continent
What is transcontinental?
200
The US government made these legal agreements with the tribes of Native Americans, only to break them later
What are treaties?
200
this mineral is much more difficult to mine
What is silver?
200
farmers formed this political party to support farming policies helpful to those on the Great Plains
What is the Populist Party?
200
farmers who broke up the sod
What are sodbusters?
300
public land set aside for public use, as for Native Americans
What is a Reservation?
300
this vision of hope taking the Native Americans back to a world free of settlers later became this
What is the Ghost Dance?
300
Settlers who received land in amounts of 160 acres were known as this
What is a homesteader?
300
THe Populist Party supported the ownership of the railroads be given to this
What is the government?
300
an organization that is jointly owned by those who use its services
What is a cooperative?
400
to become absorbed into a main culture
What is to assimilate?
400
this was found in the Black Hills of South Dakota and was the reason to force the Native Americans to move AGAIN
What is gold?
400
crop suited to the dry conditions of the Great Plains
What is wheat?
400
a way of tilling fields that retained moisture
What is dryland farming?
500
the vast public grasslands in the West where cattle grace freely
What is the range
500
Act passed in 1887 to break up the reservations
What is the Dawes Act?
500
"early birds" at the last great Land Grab of 1889 were given this nickname
What are "Sooners?"
500
allowed farmers to save money by buying supplies in bulk and by selling as a group
What is a cooperative?
500
reason Exodusters earned their nickname
What is the comparison with the Hebrews who made the exodus from slavery to the Promised Land?
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