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• The Western Frontier

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• Subsides are
• government
• grants.
• Central Pacific
• competed
• with Union
• Pacific

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• Sodbusters are Plains farmers.
• Time zones were created by railroad companies

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Free silver was a demand of Populist
Party. Colorado was the state that joined the
Union in 1876. The Central Pacific relied on
workers who were Chinese. Vaqueros customarily
wore wide-brimmed hats, chaps, and lariats. When
thousands of cattle run in panic it is called a
stampede.
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• Omaha and Osage are two Native American nations
  that lived as farmers and hunters.
• The Indian Peace Commission recommended that
  Native Americans be moved to reservations.
• George Cluster was the Civil War veteran defeated
  by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
• The last Native American to surrender formally to
  the United States was Geronimo.
• Using machine guns, United States soldiers killed
  more than 300 starving Lakota men, women,
  children.
• Farmers alliances organization formed the
  Peoples Party.

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• The End!!!!