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What did the populist party push for?
A political party that pushed for social reforms
What did Native Americans use buffalo horns and bones for?
Used to make tools and utensils
A grant of land or money
Subsidy
The Native Americans commonly ate the buffalo tendons
FALSE- tendons were used as thread to create clothes
Who were the main constructors of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Mexican, Irish & Chinese Immigrants
What happened to Native Americans as an effect of the Dawes Act? Why did the Dawes Act fail?
Few Native Americans took to farming, many sold their land back, Natives had to give up their traditional way of life, many remained poor
Self-appointed law enforcer
Vigilante
Boomtowns only lasted a short while in part because of the shortage of profit that could be made and a low population
TRUE
Which businesses rose in correlation with boomtowns?
Hotels, Markets, Stores
What was the goal of the Dawes Act?
The Act was passed to try to end Native Americans wandering and turn them into farmers. Native American males each received 160 acres to farm and set up schools to make Native Americans more like white Americans
Small sled
Travois
Harsh environment while building the Transcontinental railroad included snow, wind, avalanches, and having to cut through mountains
TRUE
Why did the cattle kingdom come to an end?
Due to a series of scorching hot summers and frigid cold winters that killed millions of cattle
Explain the continuous cycle of the Boomtown
Boom/Bust= silver/gold was found, people rushed to the land to excavate the metal, once the metal was gone everyone moved on to the next boomtown
Area set aside by the government for Native Americans to live on
Reservation
The metal found at the Comstock Lode turned out to be silver, worth a bit less than gold at the time
FALSE
What did William Jennings Bryan support?
The use of silver to raise prices
What happened at Sand Creek Massacre?
Colonel John Chivington and 700 volunteers attacked a band of Cheyenne's
Person who snuck onto the land before the start of the Oklahoma land rush
Sooner
Buffalo were being killed by white males at such a high rate because people were starving and needed the meat to eat