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Great Plains |
Grassland of Central North America running between the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains |
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Homestead Act |
Provided 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to settle in the Great Plains |
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Cattle Drives |
As a demand for beef increased, cowboys drove cattle along trails to be shipped east by railroad. Famous trails include the Chisholm, Western, and Goodnight-loving. |
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Buffalo |
Great Plains Indians relied on Buffalo to survive when they disappeared so did the Indians way of life. |
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Dawes Act |
U.S. law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them Individual plots of land. It authorized the U.S. president to survey Indian Tribal land and divide it into individual for individual Indians. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee |
U.S. soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native Americans in 1890. This ended the Indian wars. |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Carnegie was a business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industrie |
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John D Rockefeller |
Rockefeller was an American Industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist and controlled 90% of the oil company |
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Seward's Folley |
Purchase of Alaska from Russia for 7,000,000$ |
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Alfred Theyer Mahan |
Wrote the influence of sea power on history influenced imperialism |
