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The South
Conflict
Moving West
Transportation
100

Towns created around a gold/silver mine.


What is Boom Town.

100
Crop grown to be sold for cash
What is a Cash Crop?
100

Native Americans were moved to these by the Federal Government.

Reservations
100
The first great boom in the West
What is mining?
100
The system that provided labor used to build railroads in the South after Reconstruction
What is convict leasing?
200
To become absorbed into the main culture of a society 
What is assimilate?
200
Agriculture in the South after the Civil War
What is a focus on tobacco and cotton?
200

 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of unarmed Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians

What is the Sand Creek Massacre?

200
What Homesteaders typically built their homes with 
What is prairie sod?
200
Main labor source of the Union Pacific
What is Irish Immigrants?
300
Livestock freely roams
What is open range?
300
State and local laws that enforced segregation
What is Jim Crow?
300

1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and the Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance in the Ghost Dance War


What is Wounded Knee?

300

Gave ownership of government lands to settlers 

What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
300
Railroads helped cattle ranchers do this
What is transport meat to markets 
400
Connected farmers in the South to farmers in the West
What is farmer's alliance?
400
Destroyed cotton crops in the South
What is the boll weevil?
400

1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S. troops led by Colonel George Custer

What is the Battle of the Little Big Horn?

400
Lead to the decline of the open-range system
What is barbed wire?
400

Caused an increase in the population out West

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

500
The original cowboy 
What is Vaqueros?
500
Central goal for the "New South"
What is developing industry?
500

Native American leader who attempted to flee to Canada, but was caught and forced onto a reservation.

Who is Chief Joseph?

500

Divided reservation land into private family plots


Dawes Act
500
The point where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met

What is Promontory Point Utah?