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English 23 Public

The Western Frontier

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#23 - 3 problems for farmers/homesteaders on the Great Plains

soil erosion; no wood for housing, fires, fences; Indians; not enough rain; extreme weather; locust

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#22 What is the gold standard?

only printing money that is backed by (represents) gold

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#21 After what event did the America go on the gold standard?

the Civil War

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#20 What group of Americans did not like the gold standard?

Westerners (especially silver miners)

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#19 What kind of houses did homesteaders build on the prairies?

sod houses, dugouts

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#18 How did the Indians react to white settlement of the West?

attacks

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#17 What age group were most cowboys?

teen-young adult

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#16 What area of the West was the last to be settled?

The Great Plains

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#15 How did the Indians feel when the Dawes Act gave them their own 160 acres of land to farm?

They were not used to the idea of owning land; It was already their territory before the Dawes Act.; They got cheated out of it.

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#14 What did the meatpackers do?

shipped fresh meat in ice and sent them East on the railroads

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#13 What animal did the Plains Indians depend on for their way of life?

buffalo

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#12 - 3 problems the cowboys had

taxation by the Indians, drop in meat prices, overgrazing, extreme weather, barbed wire, sheepherders, horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stampedes

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#11 - 1 famous outlaw of the West

Bill the Kid, Jesse and Frank James, Black Bart, the Dalton Gang

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#10 - 1 famous lawman of the West

Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Tom Smith, Allan Pinkerton, Bill Tilghman

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#9 - 2 men that influenced the meatpacking industry

Philip Armour and Gustavus Swift

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#8 invented an easy way to make barbed wire

Joseph Glidden

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