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________ were fur traders and trappers who lived west of the Rocky Mountains and in the Pacific Northwest.

Mountain men

What was the goal of the National Grange?

federal regulation of railroad rates

How did the US attempt to "Americanize" Native American children in the late 1800s?

sending them to boarding schools

Why did people travel the Oregon trail?

to find fertile land

Why did people travel the Santa Fe Trail?

Trade

Why did people travel the Mormon Trail?

Religious freedom

What is the name of the act that promoted western settlement following the Civil War?

Homestead Act

What ethnic group made up the majority of workers on the Central Pacific?

Chinese

List 3 effects of the transcontinental railroad.

faster transportation, more raw materials to east, more manufactured goods to west, cheaper transportation, etc.

Who wrote A Century of Dishonor?

Helen Hunt Jackson

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were known as____?

Mormans

What was the goal of the populist party?

government ownership of telegraphs, telephones, and railroads

In what year did the Louisiana Purchase occur?

1803

What animal were Plains Indians dependent on?

buffalo

What was the last major incident between the US Army and Native Americans on the Great Pains?

Wounded Knee Massacre

What was the importance of the Cattle Kingdom?

food supply

What ethnic group made up the majority of workers on the Union Pacific?

Irish

What act granted more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states?

Morrill Act

What was the goal of the Free Silver Movement?

backing paper currency with silver

What was the name of the huge deposit of silver and gold found in Nevada in 1859?

Comstock Lode

How did the Louisiana purchase change the size of the US?

It almost doubled the size.

Who wrote Life Among the Paiutes?

Sarah Winnemucca