Legislation and Changes in the Great Plains

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What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?

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The Homestead Act

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This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

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The Dawes Act

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This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.

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The Transcontinental Railroad

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What precious metal was found in California in 1848, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?

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Gold

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How did the arrival of settlers change the Great Plains?

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Shift from hunting to farming, Increase of the white settlers in the West, Expansion of railroads and the rise of new towns

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What was a negative effect of the railroad boom?

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Railroad tracks were laid across American Indian lands and railroad companies slaughtered buffalo.

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what vast land of area is located on this map?

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Great Plains

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What event or factor that closed the frontier is depicted in the picture? Options: dawes act, homestead act, manifest destiny, transcontinental railroad

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manifest destiny

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What is the term that means someone adopts the culture and customs of a dominant culture? For example, a Polish immigrant adopts American customs and culture after moving to the U.S.

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Assimilation

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In 1890, a massacre of Lakota Sioux by United States Cavalry occurred as what became known as

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Wounded Knee