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54 Cards in this Set
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nomadic
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A way of life characterized by frequent movement from place to place for economic sustenance "... the Sioux transformed themselves from foot-traveling, crop-growing villagers to wide-ranging nomadic traders"
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immunity
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freedom or exemption from some imposition "the militia massacred four hundred Indians who apparently thought they had been promised immunity"
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reservation
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Public lands designated for use by Indians. "The vanquished Indians were finally ghettoized on reservations"
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ward
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Someone considered incompetent to manage his or her own affairs and therefore placed under the legal guardianship of another person or group "there they ad to eke out a sullen existence as wards of the government."
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probationary
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Concerning a period of testing or trial, after which a decision is made based on performance. "The probationary period was later extended"
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folklore
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The common traditions and stories of a people. "These bowlegged Knights of the Saddle...became part of American folklore"
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irrigation
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Watering land artificially, through canals, pipes, or other means "irrigation projects...caused the 'Great American Desert' to bloom"
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meridian
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In geography, any of the imaginary lines of longitude running north and south on the globe. "settlers rashly pushed beyond the 100th meridian"
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contiguous
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joined together by sommon borders, "Only OK, NM and AZ remained to be lifted into statehood from contiguous territory on the mainland of N"
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safety valve
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Anything such as the American frontier, that allegedly serves as a necessary outlet for built-up pressure, energy, and so on. "But the 'safety-valve' theory does have some validity"
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loan shark
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A person who lends money at an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest. "The farmers cried out in despair against the loan sharks"
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serfdom
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The feudal condition of being permanently bound to land owned by someone else. "the farmers were about to sink into a status suggesting Old World serfdom"
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mumbo jumbo
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Mysterious and unintelligible words or behavior. "Kelley, a Mason, even found farmers receptive to his mumbo jumbo of passwords and secret rituals"
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prophet
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A person believed to speak with divine power or special gifts, sometimes including predicting the future (hence any specially talented or eloquent advocate of a cause) "Numerous fiery prophets leapt forward to trumpet the Populist cause"
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citadel
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A fortress occupying a commanding height. "join hands with urban workers and mount a successful attack on the northeastern citadels of power"
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Major northern Plains Indian nation that fought and eventually lost a bitter war agiainst the U.S. Army, 1876-1877
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the Sioux
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Southwestern Indian tribe led by Geronimo that carried out some of the last fighting against white conquest
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Apache
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Generally poor areas where vanquished Indians were eventually confined under federal control
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reservations
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Indian religious movement, originating out of the sacred Sun Dance that the federal government attempted to stamp out in 1890
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Federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish Indians as individual farmers
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Huge silver and gold deposit that brought wealth and statehood to Nevada
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Comstock Lode of 1859
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General term for the herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the railroad terminals of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming
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the Long Drive
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Federal law that offered generous land opportunities to poorer farmers but also provided the unscrupulous with opportunities for hoaxes and fraud
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Homestead Act
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Improved type of fencing that enabled farmers to enclose land on the treeless plains
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barbed wire fencing
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Former "Indian Territory" where "sooners" tried to get the jump on "boomers" when it was opened for settlement in 1889
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Oklahoma
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Third political party that emerged in the 1890s to express rural grievances and mount major attacks on the Democrats and Republicans
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Popular pamphlet written by William Hope Harvey that portrayed pro-silver arguments triumphing over the traditional views of bankers and economics professors
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Bitter labor conflict in Chicago that brought federal intervention and the jailing of union leader Eugene V. Debs
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Spectacular convention speech by a young pro-silver advocate that brought him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896
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Popular term for those who favored the "status quo" in metal money and opposed the pro-silver Bryanites in 1896
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Ohio industrialist and organizer of McKinley's victory over Bryan in the election of 1896
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Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who conducted a brilliant but unsuccessful military campaign in 1877
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Author of the popular pro-silver pamphlet "Coin's Financial School"
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Former Civil War general and Granger who ran as the Greenback Labor party candidate for president in 1880
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leader of the Sioux during wars of 1876-1877
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Explorer and geologist who warned that traditional agriculture could not succeed west of the 100th meridian
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Leader of the Apaches of Arizona in their warfare with the whites
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Site of Indian massacre by militia forces in 1864
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Massachusetts writer whose books aroused sympathy for the plight of the Native Americans
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Site of major U.S. Army defeat in the Sioux War of 1876-1877
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Railway union leader who converted to socialism while serving jail time during the Pullman strike
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Eloquent Kansas Populist who urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell"
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The encroachment of white settlement and the violation of treaties with Indians caused
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Railroad building, disease, and the destruction of the buffalo caused
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Reformers' attempts to make Native Americans conform to white ways caused
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The coming of big-business mining and stock-raising to the West caused
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"Dry farming," barbed wire, and irrigation caused
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The passing of the frontier of 1890 caused
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The growing economic specialization of western farmers caused
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The rise of the Populist Party in the early 1890s caused
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The economic depression that began in 1893 caused
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The return of prosperity after 1897 and new gold discoveries in Alaska, South Africa, and elsewhere caused
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The economic depression that began in 1893 caused
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The return of prosperity after 1897and new gold discoveries in Alaska, South Africa, and elsewhere caused
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