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18 Cards in this Set
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describe the nature of the cultural conflicts and battles that accompanied the white American migration into the Great Plains and the Far West
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explain the development of federal policy towards Native Americans in the late nineteenth century
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analyze the brief flowering and decline of the cattle and mining frontiers
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explain the impact of the closing of the frontier, and the long-term significance of the frontier for American history.
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describe the revolutionary changes in farming on the Great Plains.
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describe the economic forces that drove farmers into debt, and describe how the Grange, the Farmers' Alliances, and the Populist Party organized to protest their oppression
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How did whites finally overcome resistance of the Plains Indians, and what happened to the Indians after their resistance ceased?
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What social, ethnic, environmental, and economic factors made the trans-Mississippi West a unique region among the successive American frontiers?
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What were the actual effect of the frontier on American society at different stages of its development?
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What was valuable in Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis," despite its being discredited by subsequent historians?
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How did the forces of economic class conflict and race figure into the farmer and labor revolt of the 1880s and 1890s? Was there ever any change that a bi-racial coalition of farmers could have succeeded not only in economic change but in overcoming the South's racial divisions?
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Were race relations actually worse after the Populist revolt failed?
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Were the Populist and pro-silver movements of the 1880s and 1890s essentially backward-looking protests by a passing rural America, or were they, despite their immediate political failure, genuine prophetic voices raising central critical questions about democracy and economic justice in the new corporate industrial America?
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What were the major issues int he crucial campaign of 1896? Why did McKinley win, and what were the longterm effects of his victory?
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Some historians have seen Bryan as the political heir of Jefferson and Jackson, and McKinley as the political heir of Hamilton and the Whigs. Are such connections valid? Why or why not?
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How did "the West" help form the American identity? How did the changing nature of the American West change that identity? How did society explain the policies created and the actions taken regarding Native Americans?
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How does the growing discontent of those who fear their increasing marginalization in American society coalesce into a reform movement (ie the Populists) toward the end of the century?
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As American continues its economic development and becomes an increasingly powerful nation on on the international stage how do we apply that power in the pursuit of national objectives?
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