Westward Expansion and Native Americans review flashcards

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Which railroad company started building the transcontinental railroad in Sacramento CA?

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Central Pacific

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Government provided assistance to businesses and farmers

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Subsidies

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Nickname of those who cheated their way to the best land claims in the Oklahoma territory

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Sooners

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The National Grange of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry was an organization set up to help which group?

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Farmers

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The second president to be assassinated

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James Garfield

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In a Cooperative, costs and profits are…

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Shared

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The political party that was concerned with “average” people, especially in the West

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Populists

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Under the Gold Standard, this was backed by actual gold in the U.S. Treasury.

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U.S. currency

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This Act gave “settlers” 160 acres or land in the west

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Homestead Act

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Cared for cattle on ranches more than they had shootouts outside of saloons

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Cowboys