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Ch.17
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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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