| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Gave 160 acres to anyone who occupied and improved the property | Homestead Act | 85%
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| Provided jobs and money, transportation system that connected both sides of USA | Transcontinental Railroad | 77%
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| "______'s Last Stand", got slaughtered at the Battle of Big Horn | George Custer | 38%
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| Had a show, created many myths about the Wild West | Buffalo Bill Cody | 31%
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| Paper currency being backed by gold | Gold Standard | 31%
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| US kills 150-300 Lakotas in a massacre | Wounded Knee | 31%
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| Apache Leader, last Indian resistance in the Southwest | Geronimo | 23%
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| Leader of Nez Perce, tried to flee to Canada, crossed Yellowstone, fought/raided white settlements | Chief Joseph | 15%
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| Argued the frontier shaped American national character, philosopher | Frederick Jackson Turner | 15%
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| Set aside 140 million acres that were sold to pay for colleges | Morrill Act | 15%
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| Leader of Sioux, refused to move after Gold was found in Sioux nation | Sitting Bull | 15%
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| Made for tourism, guarded by U.S. Army, first of its kind | Yellowstone National Park | 15%
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| Sioux vs. US, last military victory for plains Indians against US Army | Battle of Big Horn | 8%
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| An act attempts to assimilate Indians, tried to put them on homesteads like whites, fails horribly | Dawes Severalty Act | 8%
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| Freedmen who migrated to open land in Kansas to make a life for themselves | Exodusters | 8%
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| Native hope that sacred dances could resurrect the bison and call a great storm to drive out whites, whites get spooked and exterminate | Ghost Dance Movement | 8%
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| Colorado militia attacks Cheyenne camp, slaughters women and children, Cheyenne prompted to attack whites along Sioux River | Sand Creek Massacre | 8%
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| Made model for US trade domination in Latin America/Asia, 1861-1869 Secretary of State, believed Asia would become the main aspect of world events | William Seward | 8%
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| Silver mine in Nevada, shared fate of all mining towns | Comstock Lode | 0%
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| Made to broaden educational opportunities and increase technical and scientific expertise | Land-Grant Colleges | 0%
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| Congress can now make whatever they want about Indian policies, all former Indian treaties are nullified | Lone Wolf vs Hitchcock | 0%
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| Cowboys did this when they hearded cattle to rail lines | Long Drive | 0%
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| States can regulate key businesses, such as railroads, grain elevators, and others that supported the public interest in this court case | Munn vs. Illinois | 0%
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| Tariff on manufactured goods imported from foreign nations, giving American businesses an edge | Protective Tariff | 0%
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