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| 8791057130 | transcontinental railroad | Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west, A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast. It made it so that it was easier to for mail and goods to travel faster and cheaper. |  | 0 |
| 8791057131 | protective tariff | A tax on imported goods that raises the price of imports so people will buy domestic goods. |  | 1 |
| 8791057132 | Treaty of Kanagawa | a treaty signed between the U.S. and Japan allowing Japan to open two ports to the U.S. | 2 | |
| 8791057133 | Burlingame Treaty | An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S. missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. | 3 | |
| 8791057134 | Munn v. Illinois | Allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads and grain elevators, serving the public good. | 4 | |
| 8791057135 | gold standard | The practice of backing a country's currency with gold. | 5 | |
| 8791057136 | Crime of 1783 | A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the US treasury to cease minting silver dollars, retire greenbacks and replace with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks. | 6 | |
| 8791057137 | Homestead Act | Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property. This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War. |  | 7 |
| 8791057138 | Morrill Act | The 1862 act that gave 160 million acres of land that states could sell to raise money for public universities. | 8 | |
| 8791057139 | land-grant colleges | Public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise. | 9 | |
| 8791057140 | Comstock Lode | Was a major silver deposit in Nevada. All of the silver mining in this area created the town of Virginia City, which gained much culture and brought it to the area. This area eventually became a ghost town, like others in the area. After a mining boom was over, people would leave the area and move to another one, leaving everything behind. |  | 10 |
| 8791057141 | Long Drive | Facilitated by the completion of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1865, a system by which cowboys herded cattle hundreds of miles north from Texas to Dodge City and the other cow towns of Kansas. | 11 | |
| 8791057142 | "rain follows the plow" | An unfounded theory that settlement of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall. | 12 | |
| 8791057143 | Exodusters | The African Americans migrating to the Great Plains state (ie: Kansas & Oklahoma) in 1879 to escape conditions in the South. | 13 | |
| 8791057144 | Yellowstone National Park | Established in 1872 by Congress, Yellowstone was the United States's first national park. |  | 14 |
| 8791057145 | U.S. Fisheries Commission | A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish. Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management. |  | 15 |
| 8791057146 | Sand Creek Massacre | The November 29, 1864, massacre of more than a hundred Cheyennes, largely women and children, by John M. Chivington's Colorado militia. | 16 | |
| 8791057147 | Fetterman Massacre | A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and 80 soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them. With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail, the main route into Montana. | 17 | |
| 8791057148 | Lone Wolfe v. Hitchcock | A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose, ignoring all existing treaties. | 18 | |
| 8791057149 | Dawes Severalty Act | The 1887 law that gave Native Americans individual ownership of land by dividing reservations into homesteads. The law was a disaster ;and reservation lands ended up being sold to non-Indian. | 19 | |
| 8791057150 | Battle of Little Big Horn | The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation. Custer's force was annihilated, but with whites calling for U.S. soldiers to retaliate, the Native American military victory was short-lived. |  | 20 |
| 8791057151 | Ghost Dance movement | Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion. It fostered PLains Indians' hope that they could, through sacred dances, resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic | 21 | |
| 8791057152 | Wounded Knee | The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance, soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. | 22 |
