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| impact of transcontinental railroad |
caused west to be populated but it pushed indians out |
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jnc Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17:28 GMT |
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| Sand Creek |
indians in colorado territory with militia surrounding them and shot broke out |
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| Morrill Act |
gave land to states to sell for land grant universities |
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| transcontinental railroad |
a railroad that connected the east and the west |
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| William T Sherman |
in charge of the western armies-went after indians-"THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEAD INDIAN" |
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jnc Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:13:46 GMT |
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| difficulties building the railroad |
sierra nevada mountains, extreme temperatures, blizzards, tornadoes, long way, hanging off mountains for explosives, indians, mississippi river |
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| Homestead Act |
gave government-owned land to small farmers for a little price but they had to farm the land for at least 5 years |
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| telegraph |
a communication system that sent messages faster than the pony express-direct messages |
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| Buffalo Bill Cody |
shot buffalo to feed railway workers |
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jnc Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:07:57 GMT |
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| dangers of mining |
little oxygen, dust, platform elevators, trapped under mines, leaky springs |
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| impact of the railroad |
new way of transportation=new town=bigger populations |
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| railroad workers |
mostly irish, civil war veterans, and chinese |
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| Pacific Railway Acts |
gave railroad loans and land grants which could be sold for construction costs |
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jnc Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:04:15 GMT |
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| Leland Stanford |
railroad's part-owner, got chinese workers to work on the railroad, gave money for Sanford University and named it after himself |
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| Pony Express |
mail delivered by horse |
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| Manifest Destiny |
religious view of moving west; "god is telling us to go here |
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| Comstock Lode |
miners found mostly silver (and some gold) in western nevada. the miners were from europe, central and south america, and australia |
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jnc Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:59:39 GMT |
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| Sitting Bull |
sioux leader-ONCE HE DIED ALL OF THE INDIANS LEFT THE RESERVATIONS |
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| Wounded Knee |
massacre between sioux and americans because the ghost dance made the americans nervous that the indians would take over |
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| miners |
dangerous jobs-CHINESE, MEXICAN, MEXICAN-AMERICAN, EUROPEAN, AND SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN |
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| importance of the buffalo |
gave indians food skin and bones as tools |
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jnc Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:47:41 GMT |
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| Dawes General Allotment Act |
reservations didn't work, so we divided them into yards and tried to make indians like us-we sent indian kids to indian schools made them like us-when they were done with indian school, we sent them back to their tribes and nobody knew them so they weren't wanted anywhere |
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| reservations |
areas of former indian homeland in which the u.s. government restricted to them-hot, dry, hard to grow crops in, hard to hunt buffalo |
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| Treaty of Medicine Lodge |
required indians to live on reservations |
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| Treaty of Fort Laramie |
the u.s. government promised to pay for any indian land damaged by us walking through it-RECOGNIZED THAT LAND BELONGED TO INDIANS |
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