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Frontier

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Cattle

Mining

Western

New South

Segregation

Native Americans

Chapter 16: The Last West and the New South

Dawes Sevrality Act

Designed to break up tribal organizations, but instead took the most fertile land away from Native Americans, hurting their population

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Settling the West becomes more popular after Civil War

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Frederick Jackson Turner--- Frontier Thesis

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Buffalo nearly extinct

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Made easier by railroads

California Gold Rush / Comstock Lode

Gold and silver discovered in 1848 in California and Nevada

Boomtowns

Built around discoveries of gold and silver

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stimulated western settlement

Cowboys

Lead cattle across the plains

Vaqueros

Mexican Cowboys

Farming

Homestead Act

Gives New settlers large tracts of land in the West

Sodbusters

used digging tools to break through arid topsoil of the plains and get to the rich sod below

Current Tribes

Pueblo(Hopi and Zuni) Navajo Apache Chinook Shasta Sioux Blackfoot Cheyenne Crow Comanche

Plessy V. Ferguson

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